Bittersweet: N.J. sugar company jobs heading to Mexico
Source: South Jersey Times
Bittersweet: N.J. sugar company jobs heading to Mexico
Matt Gray | For NJ.com By Matt Gray | For NJ.com
on March 28, 2016 at 4:45 PM, updated March 28, 2016 at 4:46 PM
LOGAN TWP. Eighty employees are expected to lose their jobs at a sugar manufacturing facility here, according to a notice filed with the state.
Royal Ingredients, LLC filed a WARN Notice outlining the layoffs at its Sharptown Road facility, which is home to Royal's corporate headquarters, as well as manufacturing and packaging facilities.
Royal is consolidating its production operations in its existing facilities in Mexico, the country where its raw materials are sourced, according to the WARN document.
Under WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act), employers must provide 60-days notice in advance of plant closings or mass layoffs.
Read more: http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/index.ssf/2016/03/nj_sugar_company_files_layoff_notice.html
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)dbackjon
(6,578 posts)The main issue is high US Sugar Tariffs, designed to protect Cane growers in Louisiana, and Beet growers in the plains states.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)One of the most aggressive Lobby's in Washington.
mopinko
(69,803 posts)i was remembering that in the discussions about nabisco moving jobs to mexico. the sugar tariffs have hollowed out the candy/baking industry here in chicago.
i wonder if the thaw in cuba relations will have any impact on this.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Zira
(1,054 posts)Democracy Now keeps covering this.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)& the 1940s company housing/company store SCAM.
How can Mexico allow Foreign Corporations to exploit their own people like this? I guess these Foreign Corps pay bribes to the right people in Mexico and get away with this.
Everyone knows in Mexico, you can bribe almost anyone.
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)Was told the reason was concern about inflation. But factory I was involved with 2 decades ago supposedly had legal caps on Pay from the Mexican authorities. So Co I was with made Cafe free, 3 meals a day, to help retain workers.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Everyone old enough works for the foreign companies.
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)It takes both Co's and the government to create the sustained low wages there. Company housing appears to me, to be a byproduct of wage controls. I was amazed to learn what their own government does to their people. Seems more about keeping the masses below the establishment types. Big business is a useful idiot in keeping the status quo, IMO.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)$7.25 an HOUR for the Mexican-foreign factory workers would be a decent living wage in Mexico and would benefit the local Mexican economy in a huge way.
But Mexico seems to let their border factory workers be fully exploited by Foreign Corps.