Honeywell’s Secret Five Year Globalization Plan Exposed (5,000 jobs)

[Barrett808]

Honeywell’s Secret Five Year Globalization Plan Exposed
By Jeff Nachtigal
WashTech News

Honeywell International Inc. is planning to move 5,000 aerospace division jobs offshore over the next five years, according to internal documents that outline the company’s global development strategy.

The documents, titled, “Strategies In-Place to Enable 5-Year Plan,” detail key Honeywell priorities, including establishing avionics manufacturing in Brno, Czech Republic, outsourcing selected manufacturing, reducing high-cost staff and increasing the use of technical capabilities at international locations based in Mexico, India and the Czech Republic.

In the five-year-plan projection, Honeywell will increase the total number jobs in emerging markets by over 5,000. Emerging markets are defined as Mexico, Eastern Europe, Asia, South America and Africa, but not “high-cost” countries such as Japan, Australia or the U.S. Over the past year, Honeywell has increased its workforce in the Czech Republic by 30 percent.

“I was surprised at the numbers, at how big it was,” said a Honeywell avionics employee, who agreed to discuss the plans on condition of anonymity. “The numbers are two to three times bigger than I expected.”

The documents, obtained by Washtech News, show a long-term strategy of Honeywell jobs being offshored to “emerging markets” that offer a lower-cost workforce. Although Honeywell has not discussed its long-term outsourcing plans or what effect they may have on workers in its U.S. locations, its plans mirror hundreds of companies that are now increasingly moving both low- and high-cost job, positions overseas.

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http://washtech.org/news/industry/display.php?ID_Content=4814

[mhr]

1. Global Labor Arbitrage

This is a very clear example of a corporation leveraging differential labor costs to improve the bottom line.

Capital can cross borders instantaneously. People are rooted to families, communities, and employers.

As long as citizens and workers allow this to occur, the corporations will continue to act with impunity and imprudence.

The losses will all be to communities and workers who struggle to find comparable replacement employment. The gains will all be to the shareholders and corporate officers.

[HockeyMom]

2. Jobs of the FUTURE

I read in Business Week several months ago that the top 3 jobs of the future would be Retail Clerks, Janitors, and Home Health Aids. Looks like they are right on target. Which only makes Bush's go to Community College to "retrain" plan even more ludicrous; Detergents and Mops 101?

[mhr]

3. Flipping Burgers With Style - Most Popular New Community College Course

eom

[llmart]

13. The jobs of the future for anyone not in the wealthy class......

will be serving the wealthy class. Get used to it. You will be tending their lawns, their children, their hairdos, their pets. You will be cleaning their houses, pools, cars and yachts. You will get paid a stipend which will barely enable you to live while they go on endless vacations and play endless rounds of golf.

Welcome to Bush/Cheney World.

[hatrack]

5. Perhaps Global Labor Triage more appropriate

"OK, manufacturing & design people - you're terminal, so we're just going to let you die.

Software & computer engineers? We've got a few slots left, but otherwise, piss off.

And for the rest of you, there's bedpans and broomsticks, so suck on it."

[opihimoimoi]

6. The loss will be paid by the American People........auwe auwe

This bodes ill for us.... our deficits will grow. Our children will be hindered with debt, no monies for advancement for America and the world. In the long run, solutions must be found else we continue to suffer loss of jobs and larger debts....

[Wapsie B]

4. Resistant is futile.

You'll all be working 3rd shift at Wally World.

/sarcasm

[trogdor]

9. Exiled to Wal*Mart Nation?

Maybe. If you're fortunate.

[donsu]

7. you will join the military to get a roof and food

nt

[Megahurtz]

12. Maybe that's the idea

Bush's plan to turn all of the lower echelon into desperate obedient little soldiers.

[punpirate]

8. While I recognize that...

... the suggestion is positively ludicrous in the current situation, a buy-American program for the defense industry would nip this right away. Honeywell is a huge recipient of tax dollars, and sending jobs overseas and using taxpayer funds to support that move is obscene.

But, hell, if we're already spending tax dollars to move corps and jobs overseas (which we are doing), Congress certainly won't be able to see the logic in such legislation, will they? :(

[trogdor]

10. It will be done in the name of deficit reduction.

See, I told ya deficits were a good thing. //sarcasm off

[cap]

14. we are already using H1B's in the Pentagon

and the military contracts no longer stipulate American citizenship required.

[Supersedeas]

11. apparently it takes more than W's Community College to keep good

'Merican job.

"good" is in a manner of speaking--what does Honeywell do anyways.