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My brother in law works at a Georgia carpet mill and what he said about the new sorting robots flipped me
We were at his place in Dalton last weekend and he told me his plant brought in AI vision machines that sort yarn defects 2x faster than the 14 people who used to do it, but instead of layoffs they moved those folks to machine tending and dye house jobs at the same pay. I always figured automation meant a pink slip, so hearing that the plant retrained everyone instead of cutting them hit me different. Is that just because it's a small town with no one else to hire, or are other plants actually doing right by their workers too?
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sage_moore3727d ago
That line about them moving people to machine tending and dye house jobs at the same pay sounds great, but I'd bet money that plant is in a spot where they flat out can't find replacements, so keeping folks was cheaper than hiring. Dalton is a company town, one mill closes and there goes the whole county, so those places have a reason to play nice that a plant near a big city never will. The 14 jobs they saved were probably also the easy ones to move, and I'd want to know what happens to the next round of workers when the machines can tend themselves too. Companies don't retrain out of the kindness of their hearts, they do it when the math says losing everyone and starting over costs more. Your brother in law got lucky with his address, not with the industry.
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