More American
jobs going to foreign countries, this time Honeywell Aerospace jobs
by
Mike Crane
The
saga of American jobs being re-located, outsourced, off-shored
or what ever term you want to use continues. This time a plan of
Honeywell International is documented. Immediately after the
election outsourcing companies in India were gloating and laughing
at Americans. One quote is turning out to be very correct:
"As Vivek Paul, Wipro VC, said
after the Presidential poll, “The elections are over and so is
the rhetoric; it will be easier for American corporations to
step out with their outsourcing plans.”
This certainly describes the plans of Honeywell International.
Honeywell is secretly stepping out with their outsourcing plans!
From the Honeywell plan:
"outsourcing selected
manufacturing, reducing high-cost staff and increasing the use
of technical capabilities at international locations based in
Mexico, India and the Czech Republic."
But these are not telephone center jobs, these are not bank
transactions processing jobs these are avionics jobs from their
aerospace division:
"Honeywell International Inc. is
planning to move 5,000 aerospace division jobs offshore over the
next five years, according to internal documents that outline
the company’s global development strategy."
You are being told that this is "good for us" by the
Bush Administration. you are being told that this is "good for
our country."
"In November, the Morristown, New
Jersey-based company said it would hire 1,000 software
programmers and invest $10 million in India over the next 12
months, according to the
Associated Press."
You are being told that it "good for us" that Honeywell
will invest $10,000,000 and hire 1,000 software programmers in
India. According to President Bush hiring these 1,000 programmers in
India will create more jobs here in our country.
But in reality, neither is "good for us," nor our
country. In economic reports month after month, the Administration
(and for that matter the Democrats) rocket scientists scratch their
heads and wonder why
job
creation is too low. Duh!
The Honeywell Plan is just the tip of the iceberg:
"Hank Wolf, a manager at Smith
West Inc. in Tempe, Arizona, told Arizona Central that his
company would lose work if they didn’t
send jobs to Mexico at the
behest of GE and Honeywell."
Now our American corporations are even pressuring their
suppliers to move jobs to foreign countries. Corporate extortion?
But President Bush is telling us that this is "good for us"
moving these suppliers jobs to foreign countries will create more
jobs here. But in economic reports month after month, the
Administration (and for that matter the Democrats) rocket scientists
scratch their heads and wonder why
job
creation is too low. Duh!
We apologize if this is being to sound like a broken record.
But the Song Remains the Same. Of course the folks in India
recognized this:
"A recent study of A T Kearney
shows that nine out of 10 chief executives wanted to outsource
to India. 25 % of the respondents wanted IT and auto component
work to be given to India, 15 % favoured China and 13 % Mexico.
"
But in economic reports month after month, the Administration
(and for that matter the Democrats) rocket scientists scratch their
heads and wonder why
job
creation is too low. Duh!
At some point it will become obvious that you are being lied
to! This is not "good for us" nor our country. But it is
supported by both the Republican and Democrats and
is not going to change until you, the citizens
demand that it be changed. Only you can decide when you have had
enough!
Thought that you might find the following article interesting.
The links are also very informative.
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Honeywell’s Secret Five Year Globalization Plan Exposed
By Jeff Nachtigal
Honeywell International Inc. is planning to move 5,000
aerospace division jobs offshore over the next five years,
according to internal documents that outline the company’s
global development strategy.
The documents, titled, “Strategies In-Place to Enable 5-Year
Plan,” detail key Honeywell priorities, including establishing
avionics manufacturing in Brno, Czech Republic, outsourcing
selected manufacturing, reducing high-cost staff and
increasing the use of technical capabilities at international
locations based in Mexico, India and the Czech Republic.
In the five-year-plan projection, Honeywell will increase the
total number jobs in emerging markets by over 5,000. Emerging
markets are defined as Mexico, Eastern Europe, Asia, South
America and Africa, but not “high-cost” countries such as
Japan, Australia or the U.S. Over the past year, Honeywell has
increased its workforce in the Czech Republic by 30 percent.
“I was surprised at the numbers, at how big it was,” said a
Honeywell avionics employee, who agreed to discuss the plans
on condition of anonymity. “The numbers are two to three times
bigger than I expected.”
The documents, obtained by Washtech News, show a long-term
strategy of Honeywell jobs being offshored to “emerging
markets” that offer a lower-cost workforce. Although Honeywell
has not discussed its long-term outsourcing plans or what
effect they may have on workers in its U.S. locations, its
plans mirror hundreds of companies that are now increasingly
moving both low- and high-cost job, positions overseas.
Honeywell’s reasons for offshoring are clear. As emerging
markets shoulder the job load and the United States continues
with a nearly flat rate of job growth, Honeywell can increase
its “revenue per head” by $76,000, meaning that by paying
individual workers less in offshore markets, the company
stands to increase profits. The documents state that
Honeywell’s presence in emerging markets will put “pressure”
on high-cost jobs …quot; indicating the company is aware that
its offshore moves may cause high-cost jobs, perhaps in this
country, to be dropped.
One document touts the movement of jobs to emerging markets
around the globe as a “significant step on accelerated path to
globalization.”
Honeywell spokespersons declined to discuss the company’s
global hiring plans when reached for comment.
Ronil Hira, an assistant professor of public policy at the
Rochester Institute of Technology said that it is important to
dispel the myth that it is only low-paying jobs that are sent
overseas these days.
"The policy prescription you hear from people again and again
as the response to the global competition of outsourcing is
for Americans to move to high-end work," Hira told The New
York Times.
"What is not clear,"
Honeywell categorizes high-cost jobs as “addressable” …quot;
jobs eligible to be moved offshore) and “non-addressable” …quot;
jobs that are military-related and cannot move out of the
United States).
But according to one employee, who has worked for the company
for several years as an electrical engineer, Honeywell is
doing everything in its power to convert those non-addressable
jobs to the more offshore-friendly “addressable jobs.”
“We have almost exclusively been looking at India for our
talent, but with the export and technical restrictions for
them, now (Honeywell) found a site in the
Czech Republic that does not have the same controls
and restrictions,” said the employee, who found the internal
planning documents.
In November, the Morristown, New Jersey-based company said it
would hire 1,000 software programmers and invest $10 million
in India over the next 12 months, according to the
Associated Press.
Honeywell’s aerospace division, based in Phoenix, took
in $9 billion in sales last year. Honeywell International Inc.
employs approximately 100,000 people worldwide with revenues
approaching $20 billion in 2003.
According to the Communications Workers of America (CWA)
research department, as of 2001, five different unions
represented approximately 4,000 industrial Honeywell
employees.
While Honeywell is looking offshore to save on labor cost,
local parts suppliers for the company’s aeronautics division
are feeling pressure to outsource work from Phoenix to Mexico.
Hank Wolf, a manager at Smith West Inc. in Tempe, Arizona,
told Arizona Central that his company would lose work if they
didn’t
send jobs to Mexico at the behest of GE and Honeywell.
Pressure to find work for employees at international locations
has been building for several years, according to the
employee.
What may be good for the company doesn’t sit well with
employees, who are aware of the general trend of jobs being
relocated overseas. Few are willing to discuss the issue out
loud at Honeywell, according to the employee. Instead,
U.S.-based employees keep their heads down in hopes that their
jobs will remain safe.
“I understand the business case for it, I totally support
capitalism, but to some extent the United States has to look
out for itself and protect its engineering abilities, its
technical abilities, protect the good paying jobs. The people
that spend a lot of time getting four-year degrees or more
don’t want to go into another field. They plan on doing this
for the rest of their lives.”
See Honeywell's Secret Documents.
Source:
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Also see the impact of outsourcing on our
economic recovery:
American Jobs and Economy still on decline
And how outsourcing contributes to our record
breaking Trade Deficits:
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