So why not outsource assembly to the Chinese, keep fixed assets elsewhere and perhaps make a killing in China after all?
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When the jobs going abroad are not whole assembly lines, but bits of departments, how exactly do you pick out the person who has lost his job to globalisation from the millions of people changing jobs for other reasons?
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He said he was the opposition to the assembly, not the opposition in the assembly.
Carwyn Jones insists he was told the decision wouldn't be made without the consent of the Assembly, not that the decision would be "decided by the Assembly".
But having ticked off Mr Davies, Lord Elis-Thomas found that he did not know how Assembly members should be addressed himself.
He said he was not criticising the assembly government, which had been given detailed legal advice, but many people had their income published, including MPs.
But this was not found to be in any way deliberate or negligent, and the architects did not mislead the assembly to win the contract.
On Wednesday, members of Congress who do not recognise the assembly's authority voted to begin their end-of-year holiday early but insisted they would be back at work on 3 January.
Whether people voted for it or not, the assembly has a voice which makes itself heard every day in business, industry, the health service, education, transport and local government in Wales.
However the chair Mike German, said that the argument was not what the Assembly would do with the powers, but the principle of whether they should have the powers at all.
The Ulster Unionist motion calls for the exclusion of Sinn Fein because "as a political party Sinn Fein does not enjoy the confidence of the assembly because it is not committed to non-violence and exclusively and democratic means".
But although the Scottish parliament will have an interest in fisheries, the Welsh assembly will not.
About 330, 000 households in Wales could lose benefits if the assembly does not approve new regulations.
On the subject of devolution, he said the Assembly could not deliver enough change in its present model.
And in any case, he cannot become first minister of Wales because he is not standing for the assembly.
On 1979 rules, a Welsh assembly would not have been approved in 1997.
The relationship of the executive and the assembly is not laid out in the framework agreement and would be determined by negotiation.
Before the Davies affair, Mr Michael was happily focused on a political career at Westminster, and had not applied for an assembly seat.
The former Portuguese PM has the support of all 27 member states, but his centre-right allies in the assembly do not have a majority.
The assembly will not even be able to make laws on the Welsh language, a matter of little interest to anybody else in Britain.
Mr Jones said that Wales would be at a competitive disadvantage to the rest of the UK if the assembly did not acquire borrowing powers.
She said the circumstances in which Ms Foster was suspended were "not compliant with Welsh Assembly Government guidelines, which have been in place since 2004".
The Assembly will not formally have any powers until July 1st.
There was also confusion with regards to steel works in Wales and the minister confirmed that their emissions do not come under the assembly governments targets.
In the more stable south, it is clear that a direct poll for the national assembly would not be as hard as Mr Bremer has claimed.
But MPs on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee then issued a report saying the assembly should not get the powers because they were much wider than were required.
Caterpillar, for example, one of the likely beneficiaries of expanded exports, recently announced plans to open a new assembly plant not in its Midwestern base but in Victoria, outside Houston.
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Foxconn received increasingly bad press when a series of factory workers, not working on Apple assembly lines, jumped to their death after complaining about robotic-like work conditions and long hours.
General Assembly could not be greater and the promise of individuals speaking truth to power in front of an audience filled with people looking to make an impact cannot be understated.
Resolutions from the World Health Assembly are not legally binding, so the US and Russia cannot be forced to destroy stocks even if the majority of nations wanted it to happen.
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