Jobs they came for are leaving

[Rose Siding]

Jose Chavez grimly shakes his head at the irony: He came from Mexico looking for a better-paying job and found it, two decades ago, at the Brach's candy factory in Chicago. Last year the company closed the plant and moved his job--to Mexico.

From union members at the Galesburg Maytag plant to African-American factory workers on the South Side, U.S.-born employees have suffered for a decade as businesses, aided by the North American Free Trade Agreement, moved factories to Mexico.

But for another group of workers--Mexican immigrants--the loss of manufacturing jobs here carries a special sting.

Many saw the assembly lines as the rare place they could prosper without English or a high school diploma. Now they find themselves scrambling to learn the language, math and computer skills just to qualify for the new generation of manufacturing jobs..........

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0408090222aug09,1,5460131.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

[hang a left]

1. Uh....what would that new generation of manufacturing jobs is that?

"Now they find themselves scrambling to learn the language, math and computer skills just to qualify for the new generation of manufacturing jobs"

[denverbill]

2. Those would be the hamburger manufacturers at McDonalds. n/t

[sadiesworld]

3. McDonalds.

(oops, didn't I hear that McDonalds was cutting back on new openings?)

[Fridays Child]

4. Nostamj makes the point in today's 'toon thread...