losing jobs to china?

Question

australias manufacturing is in ruins due to influx
of inferior parts and products being brought in from china. in ten years australia will he a holiday resort for the asians.
how do we stop this

australian goverment just introduced a law that any employee can be sacked on the spot with no reason given except that the company is restructuring.
i own a manufacturing bussiness and i refuse to bring anything over from china or india that would cost australian jobs but we get no support or backing fom our goverment they are only interested in protecting the industries that line there own pockets i.e. wheat /gas/minerals/
if farmers have a dry year the goverment subsidise them .but we are struggling from cheap imports and get nothing doesnt make sense.

Answer 1

basically the rest of the world is screwed if they don't get more competitive - Unions don't help this one bit - they may protect their workers but they're screwing industry by getting their workers paid artificially high wages which in turn makes it harder for our industries to compete with markets like China that have an endless supply of cheap non-union labour. Unions originally started to help protect the workers from being taken advantage of by big business/industry but eventually gained too much power and turned the tables.

problem now is that since China has finally opened it's doors to foreign markets everyone and their brother is setting up shops there to take advantage of cheap labour - there are more people there in need of work than anywhere else and with their government keeping wages way low up to now - a foreign company can go in and offer them a cheap wage by our standards but it's still huge to them. Also with the labour supply being so huge there will always be someone there to take the job at a low wage - simple supply and demand.

I wouldn't expect an influx of Chinese tourist any time real soon though - the country as a whole may be doing better but the average individuals are likely a far way off from being wealthy enough to start travelling the world at a huge rate.

Answer 2

I'm Asian, more specifically from Singapore. We have that problem too. Dont lump all Asians as one. We have a lot of Indians, Burmese, Vietnamese, etc... including China, who have had a cloistered history, communism, fascism, ... who find that they can make a better life for themselves overseas, including in Singapore. These people, if they don't settle here as well, usually just make the big bucks in a few years and return home, since the exchange rate also increases their takings.

Globalisation is a double-edged sword. Still, I believe there is a need to have some protectionist policies in place to help a country's own people first. This is not to be misunderstood as discrimination.

By the way, a lot of Americans, or Australians are also leaving the country to do what they do best in the other Asian countries which have a demand for their talents.

Answer 3

Accuse the Chinese of harboring insurgents that had fleeting thoughts about how to make an atom bomb, tell the US Government about this evil and dastardly plan. Then tell British PM same thing, 4 weeks we will help China into a Democracy and rid them of the evil, wait a second,uhmm, free them from the terror stronghold or something.
There are no problems, there are solutions.

Answer 4

I doubt it will ever change, as long as trades are normalized.

Today is China, tomorrow is India, then philipine, indonesia, africa, etc.

Wherever labor is cheaper, the buisness men will go and start new factories there.

Believe it or not, even chinese are losing jobs to other chinese who live in poorer area or to India and neighboring 3rd world countries.

Once the wages goes up locally, factories moves to different region where labors are even cheaper.

Answer 5

reduce lobbyists and organizations that administration politicians of both party to vote in there go with. organizations get money from transferring jobs to China for the decrease wages and etc.. although, see you later as politicians love money and organizations have it, issues received't replace.

Answer 6

We have the same problem here in the US.
Our greedy manufacturers make more profit there, because Chinese workers are paid very little!

Answer 7

Gday fella,
Those people couldnt build a peice of **** if their life depended on it.
They need money for their 1000 billion children they have every year.


Sh it my mouse on my p.c just broke seriously let me check
YEP MADE IN CHINA what a guess.

Good question.

Answer 8

and India

Answer 9

good luck there would have to be a war

Answer 10

50 billion chinese can't be wrong