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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer says Trump wants to onshore garment factories from Vietnam and Cambodia to the United States

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Dashing Downward
@dashingdownward.bsky.social

This whole business is bizarre. It was global oligarchs who sent the jobs overseas to begin with and Conservatives were fine with it because it helped keep rich people rich. Were they just doing that until they could arrange slave labor in the US?

phillykrd123.bsky.social
@phillykrd123.bsky.social

Lol who the fuck is gonna want to do that work ? Trump is stuck in the past. 100 years ago working the factories was a noble job and decent pay. But so MANY different avenues have opened since than. Nobody wants to work-8/10 hours in a hot/dusty ass factory. Thats not the american dream!

Boris Grishenko
@borisof007.bsky.social

Why? He's not bringing jobs that way, it'll just be 100% automated shirt making in a factory with a few people present to take care of the machines. It'll cost companies millions of dollars, they won't see an increase in profit - there's zero reason for them to do it.

Another Boomer
@desertrat27.bsky.social

$65 is expensive for a pair of pants. Their T-shirts are $14. Polos are $65. I'm sure they are excellent quality. But people that can barely pay rent can't afford that. So, are we going to raise the min wage to $50/hr so they can buy at that price?

BB
@justblaise.bsky.social

Brought to you by deep red states rolling back child labor laws. Who needs 7th grade when you can learn how to make shitty t shirts?? Get rid of education and sex ed. Get morons to pop out as many babies as possible, indoctrinate, stick em in a factory, blame the brown people, rinse & repeat.

Nathan
@nathansolo.bsky.social

I’m all for onshoring textiles, but domestic textiles will be more expensive, and there’s no way they will be broadly affordable prior to the country’s economy being completely destroyed.

Cyndi Roe
@tampa-girl.bsky.social

Did President Convicted Felon authorize Labor Secretary 💩 for 🧠 to substantially lower wages here in the US that even a minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour would refuse to work as suckers. Fuck Trump’s Tariffs. ABORT DOGE ride a Congressman. (202) 224-5274.

Bubbaloola aka Rich Millyard
@bubbaloola.bsky.social

Oh this is an easy one: they're gutting all the Govt depts. which have oversight on building regulations and also will reduce planning restrictions. You'll get cheap factories pop up all over with no regulation within a year. Massive environmental and fire hazards. And people will die.

TagOhio
@tagohio.bsky.social

Will a middle or lower middle class person be able to purchase these garments? Person who currently has 10 shirts in the closet may only be able to buy 5 in the future.

Zahariel🍁
@xergg.bsky.social

With what infrastructure? Factories take more than a day to build and with the tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum new factories probably wont get built period.

Like Lasagna
@balsagna.bsky.social

And I guess the companies that spent tens of millions of dollars moving their facilities will just eat that cost and build a new factory in the USA so they can increase their production costs by an absurd percentage. This shit is so dumb. You have to have a below freezing IQ to believe it.

Zahariel🍁
@xergg.bsky.social

And then as soon as they have the resources they need he puts the tariffs back on, Yeah we are going to trade with the u.s. but don't expect it to ever be like it was again.

KJG
@00kjg.bsky.social

To make his manufacturing vision reality Trump is closing the doors on libraries, the arts and higher education. If we are a third world country we will be grateful for low pay manufacturing jobs to support the 1%.

elizare.bsky.social
@elizare.bsky.social

😳 My aunt died with COPD and terrible mangled arthritic hands, both she attributed to working in a textile factory in Kentucky. MAGA= $100 T-shirts, low paying jobs, bad working conditions, and sick workers. WTF These people have lost their minds.

Dillon
@dillonlc.bsky.social

The American worker wouldn’t work at the factory job for minimum wage cause they can’t afford to live off minimum wage, yet alone get paid less, only Pennie’s a day like other country’s to compete. Our shirts would be $100 each or more in order for Americans to have a livable wage, good luck.

Dillon
@dillonlc.bsky.social

True. That’s what they don’t want the American people to know how they’ll pay for it. I still think that’s a form of slavery that should be illegal, criminal or not. It’s one thing to volunteer, another to be forced.

Ceejae Devine
@ceejaedevine.bsky.social

You can just see all of the dudes rushing to get these jobs... No. No. Give them a minute. They'll figure it out > They'll still get the high-paying jobs. These $2/hour jobs will be perfect for women.

phillyeaglesgirl62.bsky.social
@phillyeaglesgirl62.bsky.social

A Vietnam garment worker makes $200-$250 USD/month. At $7.35 minimum hourly wage, a U.S. worker makes around $1200/month. Explain to me like I'm a moron how the math works. And BTW...nobody is going to do that crappy job for $7.35/hour. Except undocumented immigrants, but they'll all be gone.

Mary Reilley
@maryreilley.bsky.social

Well, when you remember he'll abolish child labor laws, construction regulations, OSHA, and the EPA, you suddenly have a level playing field. Those $2 t-shirts can be made in Alabama now!

💙💙
@pjhidaho.bsky.social

Hmm and I guess we have to weave the fabric, make the thread to sew the garments, create the dye and make all the parts for the sewing machines in order to avoid any tariffs and be 100% American made.

Jamie L 🇨🇦
@xpistolx-cdn.bsky.social

So... Where are you going to get workers willing to be paid pennies a day to work in these garment "sweat shops"? Or do you think Americans are willing to pay $500.00 for an $80.00 pair of jeans? I mean, sure, some people will... But not enough to make it profitable for the manufacturers

meekman.bsky.social
@meekman.bsky.social

Anyone who wants strictly buy American made products can do so already, they'll just have to pay more for it. It's stupid to destroy the global economy for an idea that will clearly not work but end up decimate the same people they claim to care about. We love cheap stuff. It's as simple as that.

Lynn Spann Bowditch
@bowreader.bsky.social

Really? There are no doubt just dozens of empty textile-producing factories across the US just WAITING for the chance to spring into production! Just . . . waiting . . . to spring . . . Using all that American-grown cotton, wool, linen, . . . um. Hm. Or cheap polyester, microfiber, acrylic, . . .

Kintsugi
@kintsugi2.bsky.social

And, again, I think “duh….” Let’s also discuss how many of those products the Trump family makes overseas. They’re abusing labor in foreign countries and have been for years. They can demonstrate leadership bring all that business back pay for themselves to get it all set up.