Now we know why Michigan is losing their jobs.
This is why jobs are moving to the Southern States. People are willing to work for a decent wage.
Also, most Employers have a starting wage till an employee learns the job, becomes worth their pay and show they'll come to work on a regular basis. Then the wage increases by a few more dollars per hour. Not all but most decent jobs do this. Raise in 6 months and then another in another 6 months and then annually. I know this is anti Union thinking but maybe this is why Union membership is falling. Sometimes one can get raised out of a job, well I guess that is obvious at many empty factories.
Sounds like a union job. I doubt Kubota will be union.
Being presumptuous will get you in trouble....
First off, I don't work in Michigan, though I do live there. I work south of here, across the state line and secondly, I work for a non-union company that has always been right to work. The reason why is they compensate their employees in relationship to their skills and I'm in a skilled position, a management position that takes more than just management skills.
I have no problem with Kubota locating and building/assembling units here, in fact I own 2 Kubota's and in my opinion, their quality and value is above reproach, in fact, the company I work for is one of the suppliers that supplies materials that Kubota employs to make their attachments in their existing Georgia facility.....
My comment was directed at the comment about an (I presume a SKILLED welder) being paid $12.00 per hour. That is an insult, however, that may be the prevailing wage in the south and I have no idea as to that and candidly, I don't care. I will tell you that any position that involves skill, and ongoing training is worth more than 12 bucks an hour....especially when the minimum wage is better than half that.... but again, it all distills down to a living, equatable wage in direct comparison to being able to maintain a family, buying hard good and being a contributing member of society.
I didn't write the playbook, I only play by the script within.
I'm sure that Kubota is non-union. Labor unions in Japan are non-existent and that's not germane to my post either. My post is simply that it's impossible to purchase hard goods and support a family on a $12.00 per hour job without dual incomes. Can't happen in the current economic climate.
I'm relatively certain that as Kubota rolls in more products on domestic soil, our share of products we supply Kubota will also increase, good for us and good for me as an employee of a supplier company.
Keep in mind that economically, it's a viscious cycle. As the price of whole goods increases (and it surely will based on past and present world financial climate), at some point, only the 'rich' will be able to afford and actually pay for the whole goods that Kubota and every other manufacturer produces and then, the house of cards comes crashing down, exactly what happened to the housing market. That market, with severly inflated pricing (due to the economic climate and government intervention to a point), collapsed. That can happen to any market...
My comment about a 30K car is certainly not unrealistic. Granted, econoboxes are priced much less but many are priced (cars and SUV's) substantially more. Don't ask what my Sedan Deville cost, or my buddy's Tahoe Hybrid or his brother's F350 4x4 King Ranch.... It's economy of scale. 12 bucks an hour equals and econobox or second hand, shopping at Walmart and purchasing the least expensive necessities (which contributes to the trade deficit because those inexpensive necessities are usually imported...) and no real estate ownership.
But then, we can 'afford' those things because we all make an equitable 'living wage', something that needs to be present for a consumer to consume hard goods and contribute to economic growth. That won't happen, raising a family on a 12 buck an hour job.
Until the general attitudes of the populus changes from complaciency and acceptance to being pro-active, we'll continue the slide to a level playing field with the countries that dump their goods here.....
I sure like my air ride suspension, leather seats, cruise. tilt, climate control. parking assist, xm radio, Onstar and every other 'standard option' my caddy has. Enjoy your jarring, basic econobox. I'll enjoy my lugsyourass ride......
