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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFerguson's global giant, and those left behind
Emerson employs a lot of less-skilled people to make a lot of different stuff, but not in Ferguson. In Mexico, Central America, South America, Germany, France, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Poland, China, India, Japan, the Philippines and other nations, in 230 manufacturing centers, Emerson employs 130,000 people, including 33,000 at 80 locations in the U.S. and Canada................
In 2009, David Farr, then as now Emersons chairman and CEO, told analysts in Chicago that President Barack Obamas ideas for the environment, health care reform and labor could destroy U.S. manufacturing.
What do you think Im going to do? Farr asked his audience. Im not going to hire anybody in the United States. Im moving.
Last year, David Farr was paid $25.3 million, placing him No. 5 on Equilars list of Americas best-paid executives.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/kevin-horrigan/horrigan-ferguson-s-global-giant-and-those-left-behind/article_54cf78a2-c735-5488-8fcd-c366ee36e132.html
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Ferguson's global giant, and those left behind (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2014
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(297,138 posts)1. Yeah, we know, David Farr.. greedy unpatriotic a$$hole.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)2. OURS is the Party of "free trade". What did you guys think that meant???
LakeVermilion
(1,039 posts)3. It's the taxes that the rest of us pay
That ensures that Emerson can go anywhere in the World to get cheap labor without having to worry about violence. He's getting welfare just like Walmart!