tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post3941463510091306771..comments2024-01-07T09:44:39.429-06:00Comments on <a href="http://www.jtirregulars.com/">JT IRREGULARS</a>: "Wanted in Ohio: Workers who can pass a drug test"OrbsCorbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195806840368262235noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-74016973032212367452018-05-21T01:09:16.047-05:002018-05-21T01:09:16.047-05:00Post THIS:
Ohio lost 50,000 jobs to NAFTA:
CLEV...Post THIS:<br /><br />Ohio lost 50,000 jobs to NAFTA: <br /><br />CLEVELAND, Ohio - Thomas Christopher was in his early 50s when his manufacturing job was sent to Mexico because of the North American Free Trade Agreement.<br /><br />"After working 24 years at the same place I thought it was almost the end of the world because I thought I would be there for ever," said the Sheffield Lake man, who was laid off in 2004 from Marconi Communications in Lorain.<br /><br />About 50,000 primarily blue-collar workers in Ohio have lost jobs to NAFTA from 1994, when the free trade zone between the United States, Canada and Mexico was created, through 2016, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch in Washington, D.C. This ranked Ohio sixth nationally. Most of the jobs moved to Mexico, the analysis shows. Nationally, 928,378 jobs were lost.<br /><br />Christopher retrained for a career in information technology, from which he retired in 2014. It would take him three years to land a job in his new career. Christopher's experience represents the often-touted promise that workers who lost jobs to NAFTA would be able to retrain for successful new careers. But his case also reflects the difficult reality of laid-off workers, who are often middle age, finding another good-paying job.<br /><br />President Donald Trump has tapped into frustration about NAFTA job loss in Ohio and other states, saying he would renegotiate the trade deal to favor blue-collar workers - or even abolish it. With his administration now in NAFTA talks, the experience of blue-collar workers in Ohio raises the question of how to balance their concerns about job loss against those of manufacturers, who say they need the trade deal to remain globally competitive.<br /><br />Canada and Mexico are Ohio's largest trading partners, according to the Ohio Development Services Agency. Nearly 40 percent, or $19.1 billion, of Ohio's exports went to Canada in 2016. Mexico was a distant second at 13 percent or $6.5 billion.<br /><br />"Ohio exported more than 50 percent of our total goods to Canada or Mexico in 2016," said Ryan Augsburger, a vice president at the Ohio Manufacturers' Association. "Nationally, it is a third. Ohio is as big a NAFTA entity as any state in the country."<br /><br />Manufacturers want renegotiations to focus on making it easier to move goods across borders, which they say could even increase Ohio's exports to the two countries. Many manufacturers and industry experts say that if NAFTA is eliminated or substantially revised, job loss would increase because production would move abroad, most likely to Asia. They say globalization has made it too costly to have high labor-intensive, low-skill factory work done in the U.S.<br /><br />https://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2017/09/ohio_lost_50000_jobs_to_nafta.html<br /><br />TSEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12169949099985987570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514457884876261588.post-21351871562904673072018-05-20T23:12:32.630-05:002018-05-20T23:12:32.630-05:00You make the alleged $50G - Plus by working 7 days...You make the alleged $50G - Plus by working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day.<br /><br />Wanted in Ohio - decent working hours and conditions.<br /><br />Employers are Lying Assholes - every one of 'em.<br /><br /><br /><br />TSEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12169949099985987570noreply@blogger.com