When they moved corporate header quarters to Bermuda to evade taxation.

There needs to be a website to list companies that should be boycotted and why.

corkhead

(6,119 posts)

9. I just bought a new American Standard furnace and AC

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Sat Apr 30, 2016, 11:07 AM

Apr 2016

theirs are "assembled in usa". here is a page about it...

These days American Standard has 10 year parts warranties on their products, they still assemble in the U.S.A., and we still make most of our parts! American Standard engineers are still making innovations, while most of the other brands have been struggling the last few years with the “big secret” about Copeland Compressor sludge problems(due to outsourcing), we have enjoyed the same trouble free compressors that we have made in-house, since American Standard and Trane are the only companies that still make our own compressors. No company is perfect, but I’m glad that our product is still Made in America. Here are a few documents from 2012 showing models of our American Standard Condensers, Heat Pumps, Air Handlers, furnaces, roof top units, and furnaces that are made in the U.S.A.

http://www.baptistheatingandair.com/tag/made-in-the-u-s-a/

Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts)

10. I like it but

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Sat Apr 30, 2016, 11:09 AM

Apr 2016

Since almost nothing is made here any longer, with the exception of military hardware, you have to do some serious research first.

Hell, even Oreo is moving to Mexico.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

12. My understanding was -one- of the Oreo production lines was being moved

Reply to Ferd Berfel (Reply #10)

Sat Apr 30, 2016, 11:20 AM

Apr 2016

IIRC a plant on the east coast was going to continue.

Maybe I don't have that right, but this makes boycotting Oreo problematic if you're interesting in saving the remaining US jobs.

Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts)

13. you may be correct

Reply to HereSince1628 (Reply #12)

Sat Apr 30, 2016, 11:24 AM

Apr 2016

didn't' know about an east coast plant.

I live in the burbs of Chicago and have only heard about the plant here.

Turbineguy

(37,422 posts)

11. It's those who inhabit the tween zone.

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Sat Apr 30, 2016, 11:12 AM

Apr 2016

That's the space between "fuck the customer" and "fuck the worker".

During the Vietnam war many went to college to avoid the draft and became political scientists on both sides of the spectrum. They developed a symbiotic relationship resulting in the polarization we see today.

Since that time it's been the rise of the MBA's. They will destroy the economy. They produce nothing and create nothing. But still have to be paid. The customer has to pay more and the producer has to take less. Because the MBA's think themselves to be vital to the process, they fail to see that the customer and the producer are one and the same.

Fuddnik

(8,846 posts)

14. Yeah, I remember that from way back then.

Reply to Turbineguy (Reply #11)

Sat Apr 30, 2016, 11:25 AM

Apr 2016

People around my class, most mainly from working middle class, union families were running off to college to escape Vietnam and the draft. A shitload went to Kent State, and started studying something called "business", and learned how to break the unions and workers that made their education possible.