My husband's manufacturing plant just closed and moved its operations to their plant in Jua'rez Mexico. My nephew is an Electrician working for a company that was contracted by this company to install machines from the closed plant here in the states. He spent a month at the Jua'rez plant. Here is what he wittnessed.
Workers make 30.00 per day. Clothes, shoes, medical and child care are provided.
An employee will come to work for maybe two weeks and then send their wife, uncle, brother or sister in to take their place. They will come back to work after a few weeks, no problem.
They may work for a couple of weeks and just get trained for the job they are doing and leave because the GM plant down the road is paying better or working a few more hours.
My nephew was surprised that the company put up with this type of conduct since it would never be condoned here in the states.
2007-07-28 02:53:10 · 12 answers · asked by Cleo 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
cincywahine; We all saw the handwritting on the wall when NAFTA passed. It was just a matter of time.
Dav; Awesome answer
meathead; Richt on for # 2
tony a; I would like to work in any plant you owned with that mindset.
grasshopper; this company manufacturers compressors, evaporators and radiators for Ford and GM vehicles. Right now there are 150,000 new Fords out in the field that have defective air conditioning compressors in them that were produced in this plant.
Daniel F; Do you live and work at the plants in Jua'rez? My source is an eyewittness account. What's yours?
When enough consumers get fed up with all the recalls and crap maybe something will be done. Since we are very close to a third world country who is going to buy the junk?
Big business says that Americans won't do the jobs, I beg to differ. We will and we will produce a better product hands down every time.
2007-07-28 13:41:36 · update #1
Daniel F; My source as of June 2007 and no he doesn't hit the bottle as you assumed.
2007-07-28 19:17:14 · update #2
I worked for 19 years as a software engineer and have two masters degrees. All the jobs are going overseas and the employment situation here keeps getting worse. I know a lot of qualified people that can't get jobs.
Welcome to the US; a future third-world country in the making.
2007-07-28 03:03:50 · answer #1 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
this is why these illegals need to stay home! let the robber barrons move out. you have two choices buy the stock or boycott the products.I sorry your husband lost his job, but this is a trend we cannot control if I owned a plant I would want my workers to be the best paid in the industry,this might not make my investors happy though. The best answer I think is for the workers to rise up and take this country back one company at a time. Forget unions become business owners! for example all the auto workers in Detroit that are in trouble now should get together and buy parts of the auto makers to get a real voice and have a real stake in these companies.
2007-07-28 10:16:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is happening alot in our manufacturing business today. You story is common to many of the jobs in Mexico. Large and small manufacturing is moving there for that reason. The 30 dollars a day , at 8 hours a day is less than 4 dollars an hour. Until the Mexican wage increases to compete with the American wage, it causes two things to happen.
1. More companies will move south to lower employee cost
2. More people will want to come to America to earn more money to raise their families.
Our minimum wage is greater than the wages of these poor people are offered to work in Mexico. We cannot fix my number 1 comment, but, we can enforce companies from hiring illegals in our country. If we dry up the jobs for illegals to be here, it will force jobs to stay in Mexico and the workers of Mexico will demand greater wages to work there. That will start to level the playing field for American workers and start to keep work in our country. Your question really is a issue that helps make the illegal immigration issue one that needs to be solved by our Government.
2007-07-28 10:06:04 · answer #3 · answered by meathead 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
US companies are making out like bandits in Mexico but to those who think $30 a day is not good, are you kidding? In Mexico $30 per day is a good wage - they have a very low cost of living in Mexico as someone pointed out his rent in Mexico is $140 per month, compare that with the $1200 - $1500 per month in my city but of course we make more here BECAUSE ITS MORE EXPENSIVE TO LIVE HERE...
As for the leaving jobs, not sure why this happens soon Mexico will be invaded on its Southern border with illegal immigrants who are doing "the jobs Mexicans won't do"?
2007-07-28 12:23:55 · answer #4 · answered by Rabid Frog 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
But it's not the United States. The minimum wage in Indonesia is 30 cents per day for a ten hour shift. Nike pays it's workers there $2 per day and so it has a loyal and obedient work force there, what does you nephew think of that?
2007-07-28 09:58:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Again you know not what you speak? The Mexican work force is mostly female, and work the same job requirements that are deemed (great job to have) , if one is not willing to do the work there is a long list of people waiting to take their job. maybe he was dripping into the Tequila to much.
I lived in Nogales Sonora Mexico for three years, which is a lot longer than your persons one month, the "Maguiladoras"
are the most sought after jobs in Nogales, you can not enter the company grounds without a picture ID , I have visited them a number of times as an State of Arizona employee and always needed a pass to enter, for these reasons, I say your source is not a truthful one, there are thousands of people waiting to be employed there.
Most of the items that are stamped made in the USA are made in Mexico and shipped to the states and assembled here and labeled (made in the USA)
I have three nieces that have worked in the Maguiladoras in Nogales. And a cousin that works at the Ford plant in Hermosillo.
As of 01-01-2006
Minimum wage in Mexico is $4.56 Per Day
In Juarez (Maguiladors) pay $1.25/ hr $10.00 per day
$50.00 per week W/0 O.T.
Yours source is full of it. Put your brain in gear before you put your mouth in motion, why do you guys insist on the Big Lie in your posts?
Give me the name of the company in Juarez , (you have to know that you ,said it was the company your husband worked for),That your June ,2007 source, says pays $30.00 a day, The American plants pay $10 a day, twice the pervailing minimum wage of less than $5 a day. You can not because it is pure Bull.
2007-07-28 12:21:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
Your nephew was applying American work ethics and cultural norms .... in Mexico. Probably was a culture shock for him! But I'm not going to judge on the basis of that. If it is the norm and it is expected by the plant ownership/leadership....then so be it.
2007-07-28 10:04:57 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"Clothes, shoes, medical and child care are provided."
People have to pay for this "free" stuff in taxes. Money has to made somewhere. It doesn't fall from the skies.
Socialism doesn't work. It makes everyone equally poor.
2007-07-28 10:05:39 · answer #8 · answered by sister_godzilla 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Including benefits we're probably talking about 180.00 to 200.00 per week. It's a bargain.
2007-07-28 09:58:45 · answer #9 · answered by CHARITY G 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When in Rome
30 $ not bad, I rent a house in Mexico, 2 bedroom, dinning room, garden, tile throughout, for 140$
2007-07-28 10:00:55 · answer #10 · answered by Commandant Marcos 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋