Mcdonald’s McPassport
With so much Job loss and creation happening continuosly around the world, its nice to know McDonalds is thinking about job security… sorta. The post had an article in it last weak that talked about McDonalds McPassport, it’s not legal documentation, but an identification card that works within the European Union; making it easier for an employee to switch from one branch of McDonalds to another without having to be retrained, and therefor cutting costs. It’s nice to know there are obvious and emediate plusus that come with global integration.
A couple summers ago I went to Oceana, West Virginia. One of the ressidence of the town was talking about an incident which has occured only about seven years eirlier. He spoke passionatlly about how he had worked for decades at a mining company which essentially employed the entire town. When they found they could hire the residents of another town for cheaper, they simply took their buissiness elsewhere; decades of hard work and seved up leave and benifits gone with no warning. The economy of the entire town in ruins. It begs the question in outsourcing, or any ecconomy; what do we do with those who are lost in the shuffle. Reading Friedman’s book in many ways has reshaped my view on globalization, but I think sometimes for practicalities sake ecconomic anylists don’t always take into account the humanity envolved in the labor force, and for many education will simply come too late.
