So I decided to take US33 from I77 in West Virginia to I70 through Ohio on my way to Chicago. Did you ever hear of the Rocky boot company? I never did. But there it was off to my right. What caught my eye was the Yang Ming containers backed up to their receiving doors. When I got to the Petro I looked Rocky up. What I passed was their corporate headquarters, warehouse and distribution center. Attached to these facilities, according to their website, is their "original" manufacturing building from 1932. It does not say if there is any manufacturing still done there. I don't think there is. No, the manufacturing is done where those Yang Ming containers come from - the Far East. I guess Rocky decided at some point that the people in and around Nelsonville could not make boots. Those people need a fair wage, benefits like health insurance and God forbid a pension. The folks over in China don't get those things. So much for screwing the American worker. Shame on this company. I think it's time to bring manufacturing back to America.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Yang Ming...
So I decided to take US33 from I77 in West Virginia to I70 through Ohio on my way to Chicago. Did you ever hear of the Rocky boot company? I never did. But there it was off to my right. What caught my eye was the Yang Ming containers backed up to their receiving doors. When I got to the Petro I looked Rocky up. What I passed was their corporate headquarters, warehouse and distribution center. Attached to these facilities, according to their website, is their "original" manufacturing building from 1932. It does not say if there is any manufacturing still done there. I don't think there is. No, the manufacturing is done where those Yang Ming containers come from - the Far East. I guess Rocky decided at some point that the people in and around Nelsonville could not make boots. Those people need a fair wage, benefits like health insurance and God forbid a pension. The folks over in China don't get those things. So much for screwing the American worker. Shame on this company. I think it's time to bring manufacturing back to America.
