12-25-2012, 10:07 PM
A) I was reffering to UT, not the nation.
B) Steve Jobs, in his last meeting with Pres. Obama, said it's more about labor rights. You can't make U.S. workers live in company baracks, shop at company stores, etc. You can't make U.S. workers work a 12 hr shift, send them home, and then call them back three hrs later for a mandatory 12 hr shift then their own 12 hr shift (this was the run up to iPhone 4 production). Nor is it easy to cheat them out of overtime pay.
Additionaly, Jobs cited a lack of skilled labor. The iMac production that is coming to the U.S. will be ramped up slowly while foxconn teaches the U.S. workers the skills they'll need.
While there are jobs that come and go with taxes, they're mainly low skill lower paying jobs. The jobs that pay well mainly vary based on skills in an area. As U.S. laborers become less skilled, the jobs leave.
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B) Steve Jobs, in his last meeting with Pres. Obama, said it's more about labor rights. You can't make U.S. workers live in company baracks, shop at company stores, etc. You can't make U.S. workers work a 12 hr shift, send them home, and then call them back three hrs later for a mandatory 12 hr shift then their own 12 hr shift (this was the run up to iPhone 4 production). Nor is it easy to cheat them out of overtime pay.
Additionaly, Jobs cited a lack of skilled labor. The iMac production that is coming to the U.S. will be ramped up slowly while foxconn teaches the U.S. workers the skills they'll need.
While there are jobs that come and go with taxes, they're mainly low skill lower paying jobs. The jobs that pay well mainly vary based on skills in an area. As U.S. laborers become less skilled, the jobs leave.
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