Francis, we aren't gonna agree here. I'm retired so I don't have to sweat the issue of 8 bucks/hour. I'm retired and modestly comfortable. However, I made it on my on without someone looking over my shoulder. My feeling has always been that Unions are for people who can't cut it on their own. I never needed someone else to fight my battles for me. GL, 73
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Maybe you will get a chance to work for the that great company in the future. I hear $8 an hour buys a lot of amplifiers. Bet you would love to join a union if you were making that big $8. I hear cutting grass is a good business to get into. How about flipping burgers?
I drive buy this little machine shop that went out of business a while ago. We use to use them for rush jobs and they were cheap. Now we have to go far away and wait weeks
explain how smart that was.
"Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@...> wrote:
Exactly correct. Unions have destroyed more US businesses than we can count by demanding more wages and benefits than the employer could stand, all with no regard for anyone but themselves. That's why I shop at Wal-Mart and admire them for standing up to Union pressure. I wonder if they want to go into the Ham amplifier business?
73,
Mike, W5UC
At 10:39 AM 12/29/2006, you wrote:
If the Wal-Mart business model had been discovered sooner and applied by more American businesses, there would be a lot more of them still in operation. The basic strategy followed by the major manufacturing companies was "Give the unions whatever they want no matter how unreasonable it may be and keep the lines running. We will just pass the additional cost along to the buyers."
One day some one came along who could make and sell it for less money.
David
KC2JD
-----Original Message-----
From: ham_amplifiers@... [ mailto:ham_amplifiers@...]On Behalf Of Harold Mandel
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 11:04 AM
To: ham_amplifiers@...
Subject: RE: [ham_amplifiers] Re: AL80-A
All you need to do is study the management philosophy and practices of WalMart.
WalMart dictates the selling price to their suppliers, and when they say to WalMart that they cannot
supply a product at what WalMart wants to pay, WalMart directs them to an overseas supplier of labor
or parts, or parts and labor. If the supplier wishes to stay in business they follow orders.
There are no television manufacturers left in America.
There were never, not one, ever, facsimile machine manufacturers in America.
American business has chosen to divert monies to volumetric production schemes to lower consumer prices
and to increase selling stock, and to increase cellular coverage for more immediate return on investment than
in research and development. The Japanese still devote a large portion of their manufacturing revenue into
R&D. That is why they have surpassed the United States.
Our cellular telephone providers would rather sink money into radio systems increasing bandwidth and coverage volume than they would on hardening the system with backup generators, towers that are not at the 85% windload factor and battery plants that serve anything more than noise filters, as it would take a 100% increase in capacity to afford any sort of uninterruptible backup.
Find out who goes to medical schools these days.
Is it our sons and daughters who have studied hard and achieved academic excellence in their
baccalaureate endeavors?
Or is it mostly off-shore students whose parents can afford to fund a chair?
Mike, you are entirely correct. RF amplifiers are too expensive to build here. Look at the latest
edition that was touted on the reflector. Kilobucks. Even the offshore amplifier companies are
outrageous, like Emtron. The Ameritron might be our last chance. Alpha sure won?t be the last bastion
because their targeted market is so narrow. It?s going to be Joe Ham that keeps Ameritron in the running,
and Ameritron will need to contend with the competition FROM China for the last remaining component resources as the supply dwindles.
Hal Mandel
W4HBM
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From: ham_amplifiers@... [ mailto:ham_amplifiers@...] On Behalf Of Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 10:14 AM
To: ham_amplifiers@...
Subject: Re: [ham_amplifiers] Re: AL80-A
At 08:42 AM 12/29/2006, you wrote:
After WW-
II, Dr. Deming was invited to Japan to give lectures on how to go
about making high quality things that people will want to buy.
cheers, Jim
Isn't that amazing? And now American automobile mfrs wonder why the mind set in this country (including me) is to buy Japanese cars. Now GM is struggling to regain it's reputation, and the labor unions are still wanting to price themselves out of a job and GM out of the market.
I wonder what percentage of ham amplifier products are made in the US? If they are being made off-shore, how much labor would it cost to build a quality product. Did you ever wonder what happened to Hallicrafters & Hammarlund? If someone knows what caused the demise of these two I would like to hear the story. I still miss my HQ-129X. (No I didn't sell it. It went under in 6 feet of salt water in Hurricane Carla in 1961)
73,
Mike, W5UC
"age & treachery will overcome youth & skill"
"age & treachery will overcome youth & skill"
