Tapsearch Com EditorSaga of impoverished city surrender continues
May 10th 2010 18:12
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Mayor of Impoverished city continues to surrender to free trade.
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Free Trade ethics backfires -new vast working poor class replaces middle class workers ... Dying city finds no way out - ...
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The saga of the dark side of energy saving light bulb stories continues as impoverished city continues its surrender to free trade. The cause and effect behind the history of free trade is still ignored.
Mayor of impoverished city surrenders more to free trade while the need for emergency food grows
Following the LED bulb controversy in Cleveland Ohio, Mayor Jackson wants to give a no bid ten year contract to a Chinese LED Sunpu Opto manufacturer to supply the lighting needs of the city. Mayor Jackson celebrated the opening of a Walmart store in the graveyard of the steel industry and fostered failed deals with COSTA RICO. Major Jackson says Sunpu Opto agrees to build a "manufacturing facility" in Cleveland that would provide only 350 jobs. He calls them green jobs but if they are like the jobs in the energy saving light bulb dirty factories in China, they are everything but green. He never makes any comparisons with the thousands of jobs due to free trade and the Walmart store standing on land where thousands of steel workers once made a middle class wage. Now, many of Walmart
employees need government assistance to survive. The need for emergency food keeps increasing too. 80 percent of Wal-mart's 6,000 factory supplyer are in China - How can you compare this by bringing in a Chinese assembly factory that only will employ 350 workers at basic wages.
The mayor does not define how much real manufacturing will be done in Sunpu Opto small plant and like most other foreign manufacturers like Honda, the final products are only assembled in the USA with thousands losing their jobs in the manufacturing of the parts.
The example in Indiana, where the state ended up giving Honda about 160 million dollars for Honda to build an assembly plant in Inidana which employs about 5,000 workers at about one half of what auto workers once made in the state with it also involving the loss of about 20,000 auto parts factory workers. The term Built in America has replaced the term Made in the USA.
None of this is considered in the current situation about Mayor Jackson's Sunpu Opto deal.
A working poor class has replaced the middle class workers and Mayor Jackson like so many others in our country now just brush this major problem aside.
General Electric is contesting the deal but they have only about 700 jobs left in Cleveland at their lighting "manufacturing facilities" that once employed thousands too.
Another regional company says they can do the job better with more of a local value added facility but so far they are being ignored. The Green Mill Global company in Akron, Ohio are willing to build a headquarters and manufacturing plant in the city. They add that they will not demand exclusive rights to sell the city millions of dollars in lights as Sunpu-Opto has but will settle for tax breaks.
"You don't have to sell your soul to the devil to get us," said Green Mill's Ray Bucalo.
Katie Saliba of Green Mill Global showed off various LED lights the company sells, including replacement bulbs for fluorescent tubes. Green Mill is a now a manufacturer's representative for Fawoo Technology, South Korea's largest producer of light -emitting didoes or LEDs. Fawoo has given Green Mill the rights to build a factory in Cleveland area.
Green Mill says they will create 400 jobs within seven years. So even the choices are not that good about bringing back a real value added economy and I wonder why someone like GE is not ready to do so. The job market is much different than it once was and the production unions are virtually gone.
I know it is difficult to compare the past prosperity of Cleveland workers in our present times but you would expect our city leaders to seek out what the best possible solutions are in our times. I do know this - that even when the unions were powerful and arrogant, all workers were better off - both union and non-union workers. Our city was a core of business and corporate activity. It was also becoming a high tech center. My call book that I carried for more than twenty years shows that there were many companies that employed 5,000 or more workers. A story about some company creating only about 300 jobs would be just a little by-line in the business section.
As part of my computer company, we were also micro bulb specialists and will research the situation further and write more about the above. They talk about creating 300 jobs here and there and refuse to address the cause and effect of the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history including the Great Depression. If we do not match up the problems with what history reveals, nothing good will come and the U.S. will continue their decent into the abyss that is too deep for any kind of measurement.
U.S. impoverished city surrenders to Free Trade
Impoverished Cleveland hoists the white flag of surrender to Free Trade - US impoverished city surrenders to Free Trade - See - Stories behind the News in the Global economic arena
City imports autos as local economy dies
We previously told you how our impoverished city surrendered to Free Trade. But, nothing seems to stop our city leaders from surrending more to Free Trade ... see:
Cleveland imports autos as local value added economy is critically wounded. Fewer and fewer workers left to pay the toll. Instead of help, they now have to pay reverse tariffs.
Free Trade ethics backfires -new vast working poor class replaces middle class workers ... Dying city finds no way out - ...
- Surrenders to FFree Trade
The saga of the dark side of energy saving light bulb stories continues as impoverished city continues its surrender to free trade. The cause and effect behind the history of free trade is still ignored.
Mayor of impoverished city surrenders more to free trade while the need for emergency food grows
Following the LED bulb controversy in Cleveland Ohio, Mayor Jackson wants to give a no bid ten year contract to a Chinese LED Sunpu Opto manufacturer to supply the lighting needs of the city. Mayor Jackson celebrated the opening of a Walmart store in the graveyard of the steel industry and fostered failed deals with COSTA RICO. Major Jackson says Sunpu Opto agrees to build a "manufacturing facility" in Cleveland that would provide only 350 jobs. He calls them green jobs but if they are like the jobs in the energy saving light bulb dirty factories in China, they are everything but green. He never makes any comparisons with the thousands of jobs due to free trade and the Walmart store standing on land where thousands of steel workers once made a middle class wage. Now, many of Walmart
employees need government assistance to survive. The need for emergency food keeps increasing too. 80 percent of Wal-mart's 6,000 factory supplyer are in China - How can you compare this by bringing in a Chinese assembly factory that only will employ 350 workers at basic wages.
The mayor does not define how much real manufacturing will be done in Sunpu Opto small plant and like most other foreign manufacturers like Honda, the final products are only assembled in the USA with thousands losing their jobs in the manufacturing of the parts.
The example in Indiana, where the state ended up giving Honda about 160 million dollars for Honda to build an assembly plant in Inidana which employs about 5,000 workers at about one half of what auto workers once made in the state with it also involving the loss of about 20,000 auto parts factory workers. The term Built in America has replaced the term Made in the USA.
None of this is considered in the current situation about Mayor Jackson's Sunpu Opto deal.
A working poor class has replaced the middle class workers and Mayor Jackson like so many others in our country now just brush this major problem aside.
General Electric is contesting the deal but they have only about 700 jobs left in Cleveland at their lighting "manufacturing facilities" that once employed thousands too.
Another regional company says they can do the job better with more of a local value added facility but so far they are being ignored. The Green Mill Global company in Akron, Ohio are willing to build a headquarters and manufacturing plant in the city. They add that they will not demand exclusive rights to sell the city millions of dollars in lights as Sunpu-Opto has but will settle for tax breaks.
"You don't have to sell your soul to the devil to get us," said Green Mill's Ray Bucalo.
Katie Saliba of Green Mill Global showed off various LED lights the company sells, including replacement bulbs for fluorescent tubes. Green Mill is a now a manufacturer's representative for Fawoo Technology, South Korea's largest producer of light -emitting didoes or LEDs. Fawoo has given Green Mill the rights to build a factory in Cleveland area.
Green Mill says they will create 400 jobs within seven years. So even the choices are not that good about bringing back a real value added economy and I wonder why someone like GE is not ready to do so. The job market is much different than it once was and the production unions are virtually gone.
I know it is difficult to compare the past prosperity of Cleveland workers in our present times but you would expect our city leaders to seek out what the best possible solutions are in our times. I do know this - that even when the unions were powerful and arrogant, all workers were better off - both union and non-union workers. Our city was a core of business and corporate activity. It was also becoming a high tech center. My call book that I carried for more than twenty years shows that there were many companies that employed 5,000 or more workers. A story about some company creating only about 300 jobs would be just a little by-line in the business section.
As part of my computer company, we were also micro bulb specialists and will research the situation further and write more about the above. They talk about creating 300 jobs here and there and refuse to address the cause and effect of the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history including the Great Depression. If we do not match up the problems with what history reveals, nothing good will come and the U.S. will continue their decent into the abyss that is too deep for any kind of measurement.
U.S. impoverished city surrenders to Free Trade
Impoverished Cleveland hoists the white flag of surrender to Free Trade - US impoverished city surrenders to Free Trade - See - Stories behind the News in the Global economic arena
City imports autos as local economy dies
We previously told you how our impoverished city surrendered to Free Trade. But, nothing seems to stop our city leaders from surrending more to Free Trade ... see:
Cleveland imports autos as local value added economy is critically wounded. Fewer and fewer workers left to pay the toll. Instead of help, they now have to pay reverse tariffs.
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