Comments on: Bring Manufacturing Back, Orders Obama http://blog.pharmtech.com/2012/01/25/bring-manufacturing-back-orders-obama/ The blog of Pharmaceutical Technology magazine Thu, 09 May 2013 23:30:55 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tom Paterson http://blog.pharmtech.com/2012/01/25/bring-manufacturing-back-orders-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-43459 Tom Paterson Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:34:22 +0000 http://blog.pharmtech.com/?p=5125#comment-43459 It's the same in the UK - we need to bring manufacturing back. In the 70's the government at the time faught a battle with the miners and their trade union. The miners were only asking for a decent living wage for working in an extremely dirty and hazardous environment. The Government won the battle, but lost the war. As a result coal mines were closed. No local (cheap) coal meant the steel industry suffered. This affected shipbuilding, car manufacturing. Steel production moved to India and 40 years later we have no shipbuilding or mass car production. Many of our other industries followed suit, to China as well as India. We now have 3 million unemployed in the UK, 1 million of them young people. Now it's pharmaceutical research followed by productiion moving to "cheap labour" markets. When (and how) can we stop the rot? We need to make our "western" governments aware of their responsibilities to the citizens at home and manufacture as much as we can - for the future of our children and grandchildren It’s the same in the UK – we need to bring manufacturing back. In the 70’s the government at the time faught a battle with the miners and their trade union. The miners were only asking for a decent living wage for working in an extremely dirty and hazardous environment. The Government won the battle, but lost the war.

As a result coal mines were closed. No local (cheap) coal meant the steel industry suffered. This affected shipbuilding, car manufacturing. Steel production moved to India and 40 years later we have no shipbuilding or mass car production. Many of our other industries followed suit, to China as well as India.

We now have 3 million unemployed in the UK, 1 million of them young people.

Now it’s pharmaceutical research followed by productiion moving to “cheap labour” markets. When (and how) can we stop the rot? We need to make our “western” governments aware of their responsibilities to the citizens at home and manufacture as much as we can – for the future of our children and grandchildren

]]> By: James http://blog.pharmtech.com/2012/01/25/bring-manufacturing-back-orders-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-43409 James Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:56:08 +0000 http://blog.pharmtech.com/?p=5125#comment-43409 This will not happen as long as the incentives are misaligned. Currently, our economy has every incentive designed to off-shore jobs while countries like China have every incentive designed to bring those jobs to them. Can you blame business for shifting their production overseas? We need a paradigm shift in how we see outsourcing. I'm skeptical that this will ever happen. This will not happen as long as the incentives are misaligned. Currently, our economy has every incentive designed to off-shore jobs while countries like China have every incentive designed to bring those jobs to them. Can you blame business for shifting their production overseas? We need a paradigm shift in how we see outsourcing. I’m skeptical that this will ever happen.

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