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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 ::
Migration of Manufacturing Jobs Leaves Many Americans at Employment Crossroads By John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press
Jake Wier found out his job was going to China by reading the newspaper. Just the day before, his bosses had assured him and his coworkers it would never happen, that their jobs were secure.
But it did happen. In early 2000, the Grand Haven Brass Foundry, a Michigan manufacturer based in Muskegon for nearly a century, shut down. Wier worked there for more than 16 years. He earned $11.75 an hour driving a forklift at the plant that made plumbing castings.
'They didn't have the guts to tell us face to face,' he said last week.
Since that winter day four years ago, some 4 million other American factory jobs, or more than one in every five, have disappeared.------------------------------------------- posted 7:08 AM :: reference link ::
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