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Re: Re: John Deere moving jobs to Mexico????
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Posted by Phil GA on January 19, 2004 at 14:29:09 from (69.11.154.4):
In Reply to: Re: John Deere moving jobs to Mexico???? posted by Dick on January 19, 2004 at 10:06:14:
Actually, the pay per hour a person gets isn't as important as the productivity level. In other words a man is making twice as much per hour as another but producing three times more per hour as the other, the net labor cost is cheaper per unit. We have allowed our labor force to look down on manual labor as beneath them and have tried to gear our factory productivity levels to the lowest common denominator. Hence the use of much more automation and movement of labor intense jobs to places where it will be accomplished at the lowest cost per unit, which doesn't seem to be the United States at this time.
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