American Factory

Fuyao is a ___________ company trying to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States.

• Chinese

• Japanese

• Korean

• Vietnamese

What motivated Fuyao to open a manufacturing facility in the United States

• Chinese works are slow and inefficient.

• American workers produce the finest goods in the world.

• Shipping goods from the other side of the world is very expensive. Making them in the U.S. could be more efficient and help maximize profit.

• The U.S. government requires companies that sell good in the United States to manufacture them in the U.S.

The U.S. Fuyao plant was re-designed from it's original purpose to make

• auto parts

• high tech computer components

• Automobile glass

• machine parts

Originally, the factory Fuyao remodeled was an American manufacturing factory that produced

• automobiles

• American glass products

• electronics

• military equipment

Why was it so important to the community that Fuyao opened this facility?

• When U.S. plants moved to other countries, thousands of working in the town lost their jobs.

• American workers are typically taken advantage of by American employers.

• Americans are fascinated by Asian culture and the workers wanted to be part of it.

• American workers, working for foreign companies do not have to pay income tax.

American factory workers that lost American owned factory jobs were hired by Fuyao and

• earned more pay than before.

• enjoyed shorter work weeks with greater benefits like health care and retirement plans.

• were all give management jobs because of their years of experience.

• had to accept huge pay and benefits cuts.

Fuyao fully supported the workers right to form a workers union.

• True

• False

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown upset the chairman of Fuyao and his management team when he

• said that Chinese people uncivilized and cruel.

• suggested that American workers could never live up to Fuyao's high standards.

• encouraged the American workers to form a union to protect their benefits, pay, and safety.

• said that he would fight to increase taxes on foreign companies manufacturing in the U.S.

Why do you think that the U.S. workers had so much trouble keeping up with the Fuyao expectations?

• American workers are not as smart or talented as foreign workers.

• Fuyao was use to workers without protections, so they force their workers past dangerous limits.

• The U.S. workers were purposely working slow and carelessly so taht Fuyao would sell the plant to an American company.

• American workers do not realy want to work.

At the Fuyao home facility, it was revealed that the workers only got to spend 2 hours a day with their families and only had one day off per week.

• True

• False