Raytheon Layoffs (? number - moving to Mexico)

[UpInArms]

http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/1488927.html

Raytheon Aircraft is beginning to lay off workers no longer needed after the company decided to shift its wire harness work to Mexico.

The division has 350 employees, and 33 of them are being laid off this week. The rest will go over the next several months.

Raytheon decided in 2003 to outsource the work to a division of Labinal Incorporated of Pryor, Oklahoma. Most of the work will be done at a Labinal subsidiary in Chihuahua, Mexico.

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[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Hey..this should make protectionist anti-immigrant DU'ers happy

That's 33 less Mexicans that will be coming here :sarcasm:

[BR_Parkway]

2. Earlier post said the MM leader was packing up and that they'd stopped

2,500 illegals but the normal amount during that same time frame would have been over 7,000 according to the Border Patrol.

Maybe they've realized that there's no jobs to sneak in here for, they stay home and wait for the outsourced jobs to come to them.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Most of the people that cross the border every day..also go home

within a couple of days...they may come for day labor or to find a product that they can't get in Mexico and then go home

[Robert Oak]

4. there go our tax dollars

even more reason to demand that legislation be introduced to
stop giving US taxpayer dollars, in this case defense contracts
to corporations that incorporate overseas or offshore outsource.

That's more money, which are our taxes because Raytheon is a major
defense contractor, pouring out of the US and coming back as imports.

Keeping our tax dollars in the US going to US workers is keeping
the national economy strong as well as aids in national security
by keeping all design, IP, R&D in the US, under US law and security
clearances.

Also, realize that those Mexicans will not get anything like
real wages...they keep the wages at slave rates when they move
jobs to Mexico...
it doesn't help the Mexican people nor does it stop the massive
border hopping...

what it does do is increase the race to the bottom, represses
worker rights and wages on a global scale.

[AzDar]

5. You are sooo right.....Obviously, loyalty and patriotism mean NOTHING

to these greedy corporations, only the bottom line.This unbelievably inept Administration needs to wake up and understand that they need to regulate these bastards. Our entire economy is being shipped overseas and to other countries piece by small piece. No tax breaks, (or for Christ's sake, INCENTIVES!)no loopholes. You wanna do business
in the US? Then keep our jobs here!!!

[candy]

6. This has been going on for many years---the textile industry died

a long time ago and soon everything else will be gone.It has little to do with the current administration---it started in the seventies.

It's too late,I fear!