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SIDELIGHT: Just recently a friend was lamenting to me that she needed to
send some gifts to the children of a missionary friend who is serving in China.
You guessed it - she could find nothing to send that was not made in China.
What is this country coming to?
Linda
Apparently this is the case (consulting those who only eat with chopsticks)...
Outsourcing is causing this country alot of jobs, sadly enough.
Where's Martha when you need her? :-P :-)
Maybe chopsticks are the new technology in air conditioning?
Nicole
In a message dated 10/8/2003 7:01:20 AM Pacific Standard Time,
CARRIER-D-request(a)rootsweb.com writes:
> Well, this just goes to show you that America isn't what it use to be a few
> years ago.
>
> The closing is bad enough but we also have to listen to Hillary whine on the
> local news.
> Only good news is that they're not going to change the name of the Dome or
> Carrier Circle
Seems like many companies are re-locating overseas because of cheaper labor.
Look around your home. Bet you can't find many things with a "Made in USA"
label. I recently shopped at a Kids R Us store, and everything I looked at was
marked "Made in China."
Janet Paxton
In a message dated 10/8/2003 7:01:20 AM Pacific Standard Time,
CARRIER-D-request(a)rootsweb.com writes:
> Well, this just goes to show you that America isn't what it use to be a few
> years ago.
>
> The closing is bad enough but we also have to listen to Hillary whine on the
> local news.
> Only good news is that they're not going to change the name of the Dome or
> Carrier Circle
Seems like many companies are re-locating overseas because of cheaper labor.
The only people he consulted eat with chopsticks.
We'd be better off gathering the coven together and brewing up a hex on them.
A few years ago I was "between jobs" and just for the heck of it went to Syracuse and filled
out an application. Needless to say, they never called back.
O'well, probably for the best or I'd be looking for a job now.
Neal
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 07:20:25 -0400
Jetrbabe2(a)aol.com wrote:
> I think the CEO of Carrier Corp shoulda consulted with all remaining Carrier's first - descendants or not! LOL... ;-)
>
>
Well, this just goes to show you that America isn't what it use to be a few years ago.
The closing is bad enough but we also have to listen to Hillary whine on the local news.
Only good news is that they're not going to change the name of the Dome or Carrier Circle.
The full story's at www.wixt.com
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Willis Carrier was a western New York farm boy, raised on the shore of Lake Erie in Angola. In 1902, barely a year out of Cornell with a degree in mechanical engineering, he designed his first air conditioning system for a Brooklyn publishing company that couldn't print a decent color picture because heat and humidity were ruining the colored inks. 13 years later, Carrier founded his own company, to cool machines and people, and in 1937, he moved the manufacturing from New Jersey to the west side of Syracuse. The plant site on South Geddes street is home today to Fowler High School. Fifteen years later, Carrier needed its own, sprawling campus off Thompson Road in DeWitt. Spin-off companies like Carlysle Compressor were created to satisfy the exploding demand for air conditioning products. No one figured the boom would ever end, until the late 70's when United Technologies Corporation swallowed up Carrier. Many feared that UTC would immediately pull the company out of Syracu!
se. That never happened, but for the last quarter century, Carrier workers have lived under the almost constant threat of job losses, cutbacks and plant closings.
Carrier Corporation's move out of central New York will not be total, but it is going to be very painful. 1,200 jobs go in the middle of next year, as most of the manufacturing done at Carrier's DeWitt plant moves to Singapore. Here are the basic facts:
--Carrier announced this morning that it will eliminate all manufacturing at its plant in the town of DeWitt.
--That means 1,200 of the 2,800 jobs will be gone by next June.
--Carrier will keep 1,600 jobs in central New York, maintaining its engineering, research, warehouse and office operations.
A lot of numbers are being thrown around about this move and in the end, it was adding up some very large numbers, that led to Carrier's decision. Jon Shaw, Carrier Corporation: ?Our challenge is to do what we believe is best for the long term future of a company that has 40,000 employees worldwide doing business in 122 countries.?
When Carrier first set up shop in central New York 65 years ago, the northeast was the center of the manufacturing universe. Now, that has moved to the other side of the world. ?The businesses that we serve from Syracuse are for the most part no longer here in the Western Hemisphere. They are Asian focused.?
The company focuses on numbers: 80-percent of the products made locally are shipped to Asia. ?We really need to be there in order to serve our customers to the best of our ability.?
One trivia question that's been going around is ?what about the name of the Carrier Dome?? A Syracuse University official today tells us that the school and Carrier signed an agreement two decades ago ensuring that the dome will be called the Carrier Dome for as long as there is a Dome. The price of naming rights was $2.75-million and in exchange for the money, Carrier gets to keep its name on the Dome forever.
Source: NJ-MEMORIES-L(a)rootsweb.com
Air conditioning goes way back to 1902. (In 1902, only one year after Willis
Haviland Carrier graduated from Cornell University with a Masters in
Engineering, the first air (temperature and humidity) conditioning was in operation,
making one Brooklyn printing plant owner very happy. Fluctuations in heat and
humidity in his plant had caused the dimensions of the printing paper to keep
altering slightly, enough to ensure a misalignment of the colored inks. The new
air conditioning machine created a stable environment and aligned four-color
printing became possible. All thanks to the new employee at the Buffalo Forge
Company, who started on a salary of only $10.00 per week.
The 'Apparatus for Treating Air' (U.S. Pat# 808897) granted in 1906, was the
first of several patents awarded to Willis Haviland Carrier. The recognized
'father of air conditioning' is Carrier, but the term 'air conditioning'
actually originated with textile engineer, Stuart H. Cramer. Cramer used the phrase
'air conditioning' in a 1906 patent claim filed for a device that added water
vapor to the air in textile plants - to condition the yarn.)