The Hidden Reason Manufacturing Jobs Have Disappeared

"I've never been involved politically in anything ever" and then they came for your job, your livelihood, your community. You cannot afford to not get political.

It’s almost like we are a corporate oligarchy, instead of a democracy…

The problem is that labor is treated as a cost instead of a factor of production like capital.

This is why I have no sympathy for corporations. They steal from their workers, give them promises they have zero intention of keeping, actually delivering the opposite of said promises, and laughing all the way to the bank.

The minute you have one major employer in town, it's time to panic.

So many people don't understand, that everything is political....I mean everything. From your job, to your water, air, and food quality and safety. The roads you drive on, to the safety of the cars, to the education your children receive.

High prices for everything have severely affected my plan. I'm concerned if people who went through the 2008 financial crisis had an easier time than I am having now. The stock market is worrying me as my income has decreased, and I fear I won't have enough savings for retirement since I can't contribute as much as before.

H, Ross Perot warned us back in late 1980's that NAFTA would suck 1 million high paying manufacturing jobs out of the United States. If you Google his old videos, EVERYTHING he warned us about has come to pass.

Those record profits and increased CEO pay sound like money that should’ve gone to employees too. Seems criminal to take away jobs and send them elsewhere. That’s a great way to destroy a community.

Labor is a cost, but CEO pay is not a cost? You know if workers were paid a percentage of net revenue they can't possibly be a cost to the business, they would be beneficiaries of their own labor. Shareholder greed is the biggest cost to all of us in society.

It has been a tough few months, filled with hardships and struggles globally. From economic challenges, job losses, market volatility, conflicts in various regions, and financial difficulties, it feels like everything has been going wrong. How can I make ends meet during these tough times?

Battery prices have gone through the roof and the battery companies are making record profits. Greed and profit over people, that is what these corporations stand for.

Manufacturing jobs went over seas to the countries that don't have emission restrictions. The rich American owners get cheep labour and no emission controls. After they moved they lobbied the governments of they're home countries for trade deals with the country that they moved their Manufacturing plants to. Known as free trade agreements. I've watched this happening since the 1970s.

When these types of situations started happening in urban communities (80s, 90s, etc.) nobody cared and there were no concerns. Now, slowly over the past 40+ years, they've been removing these jobs from other communities. Always remember, this country disenfranchises the most dispensable group first, & then slowly moves to other groups. The USA Corp is trying to economically turn this country to a third world nation.

In England about fifty years ago executives earned about ten times what a shop floor worker earned. Nowadays it's about a hundred times. Worker pay has been stagnant for decades. But houseprices have tripled.

To the employees, now is the time to file a class action suit to get your benefits out of the company. If you were promised a retirement package, or severance pay, put your name on the list of creditors, so they have to pay you! Sounds like it's time for someone to come up with a new battery business. How hard can it be? Someone needs to buy these factories, and contract with all their suppliers. How about "Patriot Power!"? These monopolies and duopolies need to stop. We need the FTC to say no to these mergers. We also need a change in the model of corporate profits. When shareholders come first, employees get shafted. Change that, so every company isn't striving to beat last years earnings, and some sanity might return.

"They knew what the were doing. They had a plan." Yes they did, and many of us tried to tell people what it is, how it would be executed, and specifically what the results would be, for the last 40 years. But the majority of Americans ignored us, ridiculed us, and completely invested themselves the lies that a car salesman (reagan) told them, and have doubled down on those lies at least 8 times since then. Since we can't fix stupid, perhaps we should be trying to make fewer stupid people.

God. They paint it as a bad looks for employees if they tried to unionized themself. I just don't want them to blame themself for demanding basic necessities for their family or themself. I hates this system with all my heart.

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Vote Blue!!! Also, if you work in a one factory town, call your Senator, Governor, etc now and ask how they can draw additional business to the area. If they can’t, then move.