This article contains a lot of information about US firms moving plants to cheap labor nations.
That title (most outsourced industry), the report says, goes to furniture. Where workers in the Carolinas used to make our tables and chairs, by 2007 93.5 percent of furniture came from overseas, says the U.S. Business and Industrial Council, four times as much as a decade before.
Did Hershey move some of its production lines to a plant in Mexico? Yes. But contrary to some reports and even after getting into a heated debate with my brother who claimed that Hershey no longer makes ANY candy in the US or in PA and moved ALL their production from PA to Mexico, that is simply not true. Yes they shut down and tore down part of old original plant but it was seriously outdated and its architecture would not allow the sort of automation and mechanization equipment necessary to stay competitive. The newly built West Hershey plant at an investment of $30 mil did. And while jobs were lost in the closure of the old plant and the opening of the new West Hershey plant, they were not lost to moving jobs to the plant in Mexico but to automation.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/11/hershey_chocolate_factory_2.html
BTW – about the link you posted? Peoples World?
http://peoplesworld.org/about-us
Peoplesworld.org is a daily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker. Published by Long View Publishing Co., People's World reports on the movements for jobs, peace, equality, democracy, civil rights and liberties, labor, immigrant, LGBT and women's rights, protection of the environment, and more. Mundopopular.org provides the same coverage in Spanish.
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This article contains a lot of information about US firms moving plants to cheap labor nations.
You really need to vette your sources before posting. JMO. I somehow think that posting to a web publication that proudly proclaims to be a direct descendant of the Daily Worker and who’s stated goal is to popularize the ideas of Marxism and enjoys a special relationship with the Communist Party USA would be the sort of site I would link to in FR.