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wrenchwench5/26/2014 5:17:21 pm PDT

re: #525 Justanotherhuman

Kent…and evil.

This is how Wal-Mart is bringing jobs back to the U.S.

washingtonpost.com

But bringing jobs back to right-to-work states. SC, for instance.

Looking for compliant workers, wherever they might find them.

[…]

“One of the things we’re seeing now in China is not only is the cost of labor going higher, but the workers’ attitude is getting more apathetic,” Kamler says. “The factories in China are fighting with workers to make sure they don’t take cellphones to the assembly line. This texting thing is crazy. You can’t be concentrating on your job in a factory if you’re sending text messages to your buddies.”

[…]

“There was something just about the people and the workers that I saw, the factories in Clarendon, it felt right,” Kamler says. “The workers are very serious about their jobs. There are a lot of women, single mothers, this job is their bread and butter. The whole attitude of people in the South is nicer. People are just nice, because that’s how they’re brought up.”

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