Originally Posted By: mechanicx
Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Originally Posted By: LT4 Vette
I saw on TV last night a woman working in a garment factory in Mexico making bras for Victoria's Secret and she was paid 18 cents per bra she made. Whats the mark up on that bra sold here in the USA ?
California Turns To China For New Bay Bridge
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/16/140515737/california-turns-to-china-for-new-bay-bridge
There will very few items made in America in 20 years. We simply can't compete with China or Mexico.
That is just disgusting.
And the worst part is if they made the bra in the US they would only have to pay the worker about 90 cents or less to make the bra. But that would of course make the $20 bra unaffordable
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California is spending more than $7 billion building what it says will be an architectural marvel: the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. But the state saved a lot of money sending some of the construction work overseas.
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This assembly will be performed early next year by American labor. But the massive cable, key sections of the iconic tower and deck were all made in China, which is emerging as an infrastructure powerhouse in more places than San Francisco.
For example, Chinese companies have contracted with New York City for a bridge, the subway system and a commuter train platform.
The decision to outsource the fabrication of key sections of the Bay Bridge was made about five years ago, when a contractor offered alternate bids on the project, says Tony Anziano, a manager at the California Department of Transportation.
"One proposing to do work domestically, one proposing to do the work internationally: There was a $400 million differential in that bid, and in that case it would have required the work to go international," he says.
California avoided legal requirements to use domestic steel by not using federal funds for the job.
The steel contract went to a state-owned Chinese company, Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries, which had several advantages: modern production facilities, ships to deliver the steel and, of course, low-cost labor. A Chinese steel polisher makes about $12 a day.
Bob LaVenture, a district director for the United Steelworkers Union, has opposed outsourcing this job.
"There is no way that American workers will be able to ever compete with $12 a day," he says. "It's just not right, and it's not right for America."
It wasn't just the cost of labor that made Chinese steel more attractive, Anziano says. He says American steel fabricators don't have the capacity for a job like the Bay Bridge. When union and industry groups questioned the quality of the Chinese steel, Anziano says, the state and the contractor sent more than 200 people to China to watch over the fabrication process.
"In this particular case, we had full-time staff on site over in China — 24/7 — that monitored all aspects of fabrication work and performed their own quality-assurance testing," he says. "So we have a very high level of assurance about what we are getting."
Enjoy the race to the bottom folks!
As if enough of the US wasn't owned by the Chinese! Now you have various levels of Government themselves selling you out!
Does this not enrage anybody here??????
