wake up the workers, time to get going

[gremlin]

and we wonder why all the jobs are going off shore.

Why Apple says it can't build an iPhone in the US
It's not just about cheap labor — flexibility in staffing, supply chains and reconfiguring factories matter

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46091572/ns ... business/#

A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
Similar stories could be told about almost any electronics company — and outsourcing has also become common in hundreds of industries, including accounting, legal services, banking, auto manufacturing and pharmaceuticals.
But while Apple is far from alone, it offers a window into why the success of some prominent companies has not translated into large numbers of domestic jobs. What’s more, the company’s decisions pose broader questions about what corporate America owes Americans as the global and national economies are increasingly intertwined.
“Companies once felt an obligation to support American workers, even when it wasn’t the best financial choice,” said Betsey Stevenson, the chief economist at the Labor Department until last September. “That’s disappeared. Profits and efficiency have trumped generosity.”

[russau]

yep, people just dont care anymore! they want their newest goodies as fast as they can get them and be the most current device out there. and as a result,America and Her people are/will suffer for a long time! all because of some do-dad device!

[Hoser John]

They cost more as all Apple products do. I will never,and have never bought a single product from them as this crappola has been there mainstay just about forever-cheap imports as American jobs be damned sooo F'M'---John

[deserdog]

When people want every thing cheap, cheap, you get what you pay for. People making less here, more jobs leaving and going overseas. Myself, I would rather pay a little more and have more Americans have jobs. I would rather shop at a store where the employees make a decent wage rather than shop a superstore that is like shopping at a Chinese swap meet.

[russau]

yes indeed! but this is getting very hard to find!

[Reno badboy]

Kinda sounds like slave labor huh???????? That's what this world is coming to! Last job I had lasted one day, 'cause I don't speak Mex!!!!! I've quit looking 'cause all the places out here only want to hire Mex's!!! They have all the rights here.