[LA] County hit hard by job losses

[question everything]

http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,204~21478~1984715,00.html#

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Between December 2000 and the end of 2003, the Golden State's manufacturing sector lost 304,600 jobs, a 16 percent decline, according to the study, which was conducted by Southern and Central California economic development groups.

Meanwhile, L.A. County's manufacturing sector showed a net loss of 156,024 jobs between July 1999 and October 2002.

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The survey of 50 California companies cited the high cost of state-mandated business taxes, regulatory fees and workers' compensation insurance as the primary forces behind their migration. During the 1990s, the average tax burden on California businesses rose by 3.8 percent. That same decade, business tax payments fell by at least 4.8 percent in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Washington and Wyoming.

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The migration of jobs away from California was not limited to outsourcing overseas. The study showed the same percentage of California manufacturers planned to relocate to Texas as to India and China combined.

[Crachet2004]

1. Lol. Now there's a statement about how worker friendly Texas is...

If ever I heard one! Don't people who work for a living vote in Texas? Evidently not.

Lol...I know why too-easy accessability to wage-slave labor! Or no, I'm sorry-'guest workers'...yeah that's what we will call them, 'guest workers'! That's the answer! 'Guest workers' can't vote!

And if they say one word, they get their butts booted back across the border. A plan truly worthy of the GOP we have all come to know and hate so much!

Texas preferred over China and India. That really cracks me up!

[Trajan]

2. Count me in ....

I used to be employed in aerospace production test, but was laid off September 2003, after 22 + years of service ...

Where did my job go ? .....

Texas ... a 'right to work' state with an extraordinarily low prevalent wage ... right there in El Paso ....

Most the majors in aerospace have their production facilities in RTW states now ...

Pffffft .... so much for a great career that had produced such a fine family ...

The Bush/GOP goose is cooked .... I swear it is ...

[bemildred]

3. I am told that Northrop Grumman is looking,

by a NG human resources person. Had a job fair and
stuff. YMMV.

This post is not to be taken as an endorsement of Northrop
Grumman Corporation or of defense work in general, and is merely
provided as a neutral, morally blind information service.

http://careers.northgrum.com/ExternalHorizonsWeb/getQuery.do?bid=1987