Utter bullcrap. Assembly work and line work takes no skill what so ever.
CEO's, like this Apple douche bag, tell these whoppers to make themselves feel better about business decision that are really counter America and do nothing but stretch a huge profit margin by a few pennies on the dollar. He is an American and he has a conscious and he knows Americans would pay a tiny little bit more for a made in the USA product.. there was a time when corporate America actually acted like American companies.
To make matters worse he tries to justify manufacturing in suicide net equipped factories in Asia BY INSULTING AMERICANS AS STUPID AND LAZY.. He is a real piece of work, almost comical. It is hilarious that anyone would defend him and call themselves ans American Patriot and conservative.
Actually it does. Workers on Apple's assembly line are using high-tech tools and need to be able to work controls and be able to understand what they are doing. Many of them are testing things as they do them. They have to read dials, verniers, measure, etc. It is not grunt work. . . of course some is actually grunt work, but some is fine motor skill work.