Robotic Truck Wash Systems VS Human Labor Considered

Posted by admin in Labor Industry on November 1, 2011

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The truck washing industry must go robotic to deal with the labor shortages in the industry and the OSHA rules considering hydrofluoric acid and other chemicals. Additionally with water tight in many regions, measured and calculated water usage is important as well. Robotic truck wash systems can handle these issues. Unfortunately they are not quite there yet. Why you ask? Well consider the reality of washing a truck and the ability of the current machines in the market place for a moment.

Let us look at a Belanger Truck Wash Unit in this case study; If the truck wash machine takes 15 minutes does 90% of the job needed to satisfy the customer and then the actual human labor brushing and soaping around the mirrors, smoke stacks and fuel tanks is still needed. Then that soaping and brushing to finish takes another 10-min. You are still in it for 25 minutes.

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How To Curb Child Labor

Posted by admin in Labor Industry on October 20, 2011

Child Labor is a tool most of the Industrialists developed nations are handling conveniently to blame the psyche of the Industries in developing countries. Anybody, who contributes his adverse remarks against Child Labor, never comes up with a firm solution and those who suggest some sort of action never think that their theories are impracticable. They either don’t know the industrial set- up of these developing nations or unaware of the poverty lines still shining bright across the countries.

The countries generally seen under the firing line are mainly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and many African countries like Liberia Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast. These countries produce many a products for export from their respective countries to the Developed nations.

Let us analyze the industries, which are vigorously exploiting the children of these countries to keep their gears running:

Though the Labor Laws of these countries have different age-group to define a person’s eligibility to get employed, generally any registered Industry, either Small Scale, Medium Scale or Large Scale does not employ skilled or unskilled laborers below the age of 18 years. These industries even deny hiring underage contracted employees. Read the rest of this entry »

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China’s Economy Starts to Grow Up

Posted by admin in Labor Industry on October 19, 2011

China did its consumers a big favor on June 21st, 2010 by allowing its currency to appreciate against the dollar for the first time in two years. Having also tolerated a recent wave of strikes that pushed some wages sharply higher, the Beijing government finally seems to be ready to do some economic growing up.

This is good news for us as well as for the Chinese.

Over the past three decades, a nearly limitless supply of extremely cheap labor powered China’s leap from a commercial backwater to the world’s second-largest economy. But every resource, even China’s supply of workers willing to toil for a pittance, has its limits, and stitching T-shirts can take a society only so far down the path to prosperity. Something had to change, and now it has.

Chinese workers want a bigger share of their nation’s wealth. Increasingly, they are realizing that they have the bargaining power to get it. Factories in the heavily industrialized coastal regions are having trouble staying fully staffed, since unskilled workers are now finding more employment opportunities near their homes in China’s interior. The annual supply of new workers is dwindling, too, which is the inevitable result of the strict one-child family planning policies that the nation adopted in the 1970s. Read the rest of this entry »

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