Hershey's Chocolate moving to Mexico affects all ER nurses

[ffearme12]

Setting aside the fact that most ER nurses like chocolate, the Hershey's chocolate company has decided to close all its American and Canadian factories and relocate to Mexico, laying off thosands of American workers. Do all of the ER nurses realize what this means? The more layoffs, the more unemployed; the more unemployeyed, the more people without health insurance; the more people without health insurance , the more ER visits as a result of people using the ER as a clinic.

Something needs to be done.

[Simplepleasures]

The OP could be a troll, whatever.The real issue here is that the continued exit of jobs is HARMING the American worker and the American economy.Not everyone can get jobs that are still readily available in our workforce.Will nurses start to worry when there is such a huge influx of nursing students and new nurses that they will have less job security? Our manufacturing jobs are going, going , GONE.This is coming back to bite us and will only get worse until the US starts employing Americans again. Wake up,and smell the coffee, which may become too expensive for the low income worker.

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

Troll or not, here you go:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/hersheys.asp

[Faeriewand, ASN, RN]

This thread is now turning into a discussion on the American economy and Americans losing jobs to companies moving overseas. A much more worthy discussion IMHO

[graceomalleyRN, RN]

I agree with you 100%, ingelein.

Outsourcing jobs is dangerous. These "cost saving devices" companies use end up costing all of us a lot more in the long run through unemployment, foreclosures, etc. It's just not worth having cheaper chocolate, clothing, tennis shoes, etc.

In regard to outsourcing, here is an 18 minute documentary that blew me away. A professor at my Catholic university had us watch this in class and it really changed the way I see things.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1818023932

[Simplepleasures]

Whatever it takes to bring this dire situation to the forefront to be discussed is worth it, we are truly in trouble here in the good ol' US of A.

[Simplepleasures]

My own Son in Law whom I love dearly and is a really good guy owns stock and is part owner and CEO of a manufacturing firm that has China make their products. My son in law is a real "economy" type, graduated with a degree in economics.HE is worried about his products being bought here in the US, sales have gone DOWN.He has said that the Chinese workers are not treated in a way American workers would tolerate.I wonder what it would take for his company to bring jobs back to the US, Ive asked him, he said the tax codes here are prohibitive, I think he would LIKE to bring his production back here, but wont , for now.

His product is NOT a luxury item, it is something we use on a daily basis .He will be voting Democrat for the first time in his life, was a fiscal conservative, still is, but does see that his products being sold at Walmart and other stores are not selling the way they should be in a good ecomomy. We NEED free trade reforms desperately before we become a third world nation. The owners of these manufacturing firms need to have incentives to bring these jobs back to the states, greed is ugly and when only a portion of the US populations living conditions have improved over the last 8 years , what does this say?

[wtbcrna, MSN, DNP, CRNA]

It is the same old fight the company's management wants to ensure profit margins and the union wants to ensure employee benefits.

Here is an excert from NY Times:

''Health care costs, especially prescription drugs in this country, continue to increase at a double-digit rate,'' Mr. Long said. ''All we're asking is that our unionized employees in Hershey contribute at the same rate the rest of us are already contributing.''

Few American towns are as dominated by one company, from the giant silos that hold chocolate beans to the street lamps, which are topped with metal Hershey Kisses. Each morning, the strikers begin picketing at 22 company locations. Company guards videotape their comings and goings.

''The workers are saying there's no rhyme or reason for asking them to sacrifice with profits and sales rising and the kinds of salaries and bonuses they're giving management people,'' said Robert Oakley, the union's chief negotiator.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E0DE1738F93BA25756C0A9649C8B63

[Simplepleasures]

Management is the small portion of our population who's salaries and standard of living has increased , while the rest of us have stagnated and now DECREASED.Why such a HUGE increase in corporate salaries? Again, it is greed and that has trickled down to the economy being harmed, because the lowest paid worker cannot afford even the cheapest of products anymore.The saying a high tide floats all boats is NOT true, a high tide will float only the yachts, the boats have holes in the bottom, cant stay afloat.

[Xbox Live Addict]

Setting aside the fact that most ER nurses like chocolate, the Hershey's chocolate company has decided to close all its American and Canadian factories and relocate to Mexico, laying off thosands of American workers. Do all of the ER nurses realize what this means? The more layoffs, the more unemployed; the more unemployeyed, the more people without health insurance; the more people without health insurance , the more ER visits as a result of people using the ER as a clinic.

Something needs to be done.

Well, we can't really compete with China, India, or Mexico. We won't work for a dollar a day. We're not all willing to live in shacks in the slums. There aren't a billion Americans yet. So, in order to fatten the bottom line, CEOs screw over Americans and close down American factories to make goods to export to Americans who are increasingly out of work or have lower-paying jobs than

I wonder if these CEOs have considered the fact that if Americans don't buy their products, that Chinese, Indians, and Mexicans aren't going to pay the same prices for their products that Americans were willing to. Few people in third world countries will be able to pay $15 for a pair of pants, $3 for candy. They're used to paying pennies on the dollar, and the wages they're getting paid aren't going to make them any more willing to pay American prices. I guess the population difference in China and India will make up for it.

Europeans protect their own. Why can't America do the same? European workers get better wages and benefits than American workers do, but few European companies are screaming poverty and moving from Germany and Britain to Russia or Turkey, leaving their workers in the lurch. Japanese companies are actually opening MORE manufacturing facilities in the US, while their American counterparts, screaming poverty, ship more jobs off to China, India, and Mexico!

Kudos to our captains of industry for screwing America over yet again. I guess as long as you guys get what you want, nothing else matters, huh.

[Faeriewand, ASN, RN]

European companies also give their employees one month vacation time every year. Average American worker gets 2 weeks. Just another way American companies don't support their employees.

[llg, PhD, RN]

I feel bad that I fed the troll.

I'm sorry.

[pirap]

Nevermind..better not post this