Assembly line worker Ian Whitcombe, 21, who has been at the plant for four years, feared he would find it difficult to find a new job.
Mr. SEPIC: Assembly line worker, Oscar Johnson(ph), says he's proud to work at one of Ford's most productive facilities but he concedes he still hasn't figured out what to do next.
Another worker, who would identify himself only as Mr. Xiao, started as an assembly-line worker almost three years ago, just after graduating from a technical school in central China, where Hon Hai recruited him.
What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take sixty percent or more of his extra pay?
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Our automobile industry has overhauled assembly lines, increased worker productivity, and is competitive once again.
Today, a critical stop on the assembly line of the American worker is graduation from college.
"Any employee who is not creating value does not have a real job in the MBM sense of the word, " Koch writes, although a worker on the assembly line might consider his weekly paycheck real enough.
This assembly line, however, consists of one car, and the worker is an Ohio State University graduate student draped in wires, sensors and electrodes that record every move.
In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.
One goal of this approach is to eliminate non-value-added activities in Chrysler plants in a thoroughgoing way that the company never has attempted before, down to shaving steps required by an assembly-line operator to complete a given task by asking the worker to redesign the job.
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In addition to the Dreamliner assembly line at its Seattle-area factory, it built a new 1, 000-worker factory in South Carolina to handle the demand.
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