Honeywell Aerospace Outsourcing Jobs
This has been going on all year, and continues the trend of outsourcing jobs.
Following are some excerpts from sources documenting the deliberate cuts in American jobs to hire foreign workers. Many companies outsourcing work derive income from US Defense contracts.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Honeywell ships 225 Arizona jobs offshore
Phoenix Business Journal - by Mike Sunnucks Phoenix Business Journal source.
A unit of Honeywell International Inc. is laying off 225 workers in north Phoenix and moving those jobs to Tianjin, China, and Pune, India, among other locations.
Honeywell Process Solutions also is shifting manufacturing and engineering positions to York, Pa., Canada, Switzerland, and Ireland, said company spokesman Jake Saylor. The impacted jobs are at the unit's headquarters, on Union Hills Drive near Interstate 17 in Phoenix.
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Honeywell joins a host of U.S. and European companies that are moving jobs to or expanding operations in China and India.
Here is a more recent example from Honeywell Aerospace.
700 jobs to be cut at Phoenix plant
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.08.2008 source.
Honeywell Aerospace plans to cut 700 manufacturing jobs at the company's Phoenix jet engine plant and transfer the work to Mexico and the Czech Republic.
The cuts at the company's Sky Harbor International Airport facility will begin in the second quarter of 2009 and continue for three years.
All this is happening in spite of the federal government’s announcement that unemployment rose to a 14 year high in October.
Several Points to be made:
• I hope Honeywell does not get in on the “Bailout Welfare”, nor should any other company receiving Bailout Welfare be able to take US taxpayers’ money to send US jobs overseas.
• How many jet planes and engines do Mexico and the Czech Republic make? If a country lacks the education, technology, and skilled workers to make an automobile or a jet airplane, do you want that country making jet engines for American planes?
• There is a limit to outsourcing high skill US manufacturing jobs. At some point we lack the ability to do our own manufacturing and are wholly reliant on the whims and politics of foreigners. I guess we learned nothing from the OPEC oil embargo of the US during the 70’s or Turkey’s refusal to let our troops enter Iraq in 2003.
• Like illegal immigration, outsourcing eliminates millions of American jobs and lowers the wages of millions more.
posted by LomaAlta @ 6:00 PM
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This is exactly like the auto industry. They eliminate jobs and now they want to get paid for doing it by the federal government.
Chuck, you are correct.
Globalism seems to work only one way and its not in the direction of American workers.
*sigh*
I fear unions are going to be the death of this country. They make competition with other markets impossible.
Their time is past.
God forbid we ever get into a major war or other bind and need to produce something for ourselves. We're screwed.
Brooke, thanks for the comments.
You are right, the unions put their own interest ahead of their country's. So do companies who outsource jobs. There are several right to work states where the manufacturing could have been done by non-union workers. The companies let greed overcome their patriotism.
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