Job cuts hit Labor poll plans in South Australia
The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... factory in Japan, shortly before becoming Premier. Shadow economic development minister Martin Hamilton-Smith rued the company’s decision and warned of a continuing slide in the state’s manufacturing sector.“These Bridgestone jobs will go overseas,” Mr Hamilton-Smith said. “Emerging economies have lower cost factors of production. They pay less wages. They don’t observe the...