Is your job in jeopardy Garry?
Lots of companies laying ground work for moving. I have noticed in my china news-lots of drug companies out sourcing to china.
Politics aside--Companies will gravitate to profits. Taxes/unions/regulations are corporate killers--we got 2nd highest corporate taxes in world now--this admin and those that follow will have to get tax revenue from somewhere to just pay interest on projected debt--and to go after the voters would be poltical suicide--so I think corps are seeing handwriting on the wall.
When isn't it in jeopardy? Since 2000, I have worked at 3 companies and all 3 have had major lay offs (Ford had 3 big ones). As far as our manufacturing areas moving to Mexico affecting my job, it is hard to say. They just made this announcement a couple weeks ago and the plan doesn't really start for another year or so. When one product line out of four leaves the building, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that 25% of what you once did has gone away and people will be impacted. Luckily, I have been able to weather the storms of past lay offs, but you never know. I have seen great people/workers laid off when the wrong people make the cuts.
For what it is worth, I understand that we live in a global economy and it makes sense to move to lower cost production areas, but I also know that it is going to be hard to sell your products to a country filled with out of work people. The problem with our greedy society is that making money isn't good enough...you always have to make more. Companies used to be a place where the owner made a bundle and provided a place other people could make a living through as well. Perhaps the Mexicos and Chinas weren't options to those owners of yesteryear and I am giving them a pass, but in today's working world, it is all about making more money. Technology is making production easier, safer, and faster but eventually it is going to come down to "where can we make it cheaper?". That question will always come up once you've exhausted all other cost cutting measures because the share-holders and corporate execs will demand it. It is what it is. If you think any US manufacturing jobs are untouchable, you're fooling yourself.
