Posted on 08/20/2009 9:44:18 AM PDT by pissant
Tektronix said this afternoon that it plans to export unspecified Oregon production work to Shanghai, China by the end of next year, the latest in a series of upheavals as Tek adapts to a new owner and the withering economic downturn.
It's another blow for Oregon's faltering high-tech sector, which employs fewer people today than at any point in the past 13 years.
Though Tektronix did not specify how many Oregon jobs it will eliminate, employees said that more than 400 currently work in Building 19, the main manufacturing facility at Tek's headquarters campus near Beaverton. Gov. Ted Kulongoski's office said negotiations to keep the work here began in June, adding that the governor was told 200 Oregon jobs were at stake.
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The threat of coming higher taxes - cause and effect.
The new digital phospor TEK scopes are sweet.
They have an “Autoset” button that seeks out the waveform and puts it on the screen. Almost as cool as cruse control in a car
Right now it looks like globalism was the end of America. We exported our technology, we exported our manufacturing base, we’re exporting information and tech jobs; basically we’re exporting our economy, and for what? So a very few large shareholders can make a killing selling Chinese made goods to the Chinese? Christ, what’s going to be left in America but government jobs or menial personal service jobs that cater to the new governmental “elite?” (Oops, I forgot that the illegal Mexicans are going to snap all those positions up.) Madness. Somebody convince me I’m wrong about this.
That’s it. I refuse to “Pump Up The Jam.”
I worked for Tek for 10 years....some time ago. Howard Vollum, the founder of Tek had a completely different idea in running the company. They manufactured equipment that nobody else did but that engineers across the country wanted. I was a manager in the company and when Howard died, the good ole boys took over the company and went from 22,000 employees to about 7,000. Profit sharing in the company was unreal. You could double your salary when times were good. It’s a shame to see the company go the way it is. They could bring it back, but I doubt they would listen to anyone.
Now you see why SEIU is becoming such an important factor in politics.
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At the time, it was the best made when looking at the technology of the times.
That’s it. I refuse to “Pump Up The Jam.”
What? NOOOOOOO! I’ve got an entire home lab full of thousands of dollars of older Tektronix equipment. I’ve got a retired contact in Oregon who can get parts and the service and operation manuals and now they’re going Chinese?
That is not good. When I talk with the people that retired out of there, they loved the place and were still involved in their products in some ways such as supporting older equipment.
but what goes around comes around....maybe its for the "rest of us" to sit back and collect unemployment and SS and pay few taxes and have the govt workers foot the bill for all of us...afterall, they're "working"....
Everything Democrats do is designed to drive productive industries to China.
If you were going to build a factory, would you build it in California?
Or would you build it somewhere where they want you?
And yes, the result is that where the jobs go, the technologies and skills go with them.
I would build nothing in China, ever. It’s traitorous in my book.
The game is rigged there, too.
Whatever you think you own, you don’t.
No way I’ll ever buy a ‘Made in China’ Tektronix ‘scope. Same goes for ‘IBM’ Lenovo ‘ThinkPads’. What I have will work just fine for a long time coming.
I played around with various Tektronics stuff in my TV days and don’t miss them that much. I have some Lenovos come my way sometimes, I don’t enjoy working on them.
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