sadly no company controls their own stuff anymore. No vertical integration.

Nike really doesn’t make anything, its all contracted out to others. Manufactured in whatever plant gets the nod with a low bid and sufficient quality. Shipped and warehouse and distributed by others. Profits rise to the top.

We live in a world where the few at the top are skimming pretty much all they can, pitting labor from USA vs Korea, vs china, vs Vietnam etc. The top 1% everywhere control the production and everyone else should be happy with their plight!!!

The establishment in Washington — both all the Dems and many of the Republicans are against it and thus against trump.

Trump heard the pleas of the former working class and was give a mandate of sorts, but neither the dems or repubs are behind him, he is a man without a party.

The really rich want to send our good paying jobs overseas and hire immigrants — even illegal ones to do work they don’t want to pay American's a higher wage too.  Like butchers, use to be a good job back in the 60’s-70’s but now much cutting done by poorly paid immigrants prior to distribution to the supermarkets

If your company felt that Indian/phillipino/other... workers could do your job at a savings of money they would pull the plug in a moments notice.


On May 20, 2017, at 13:53, Mary Ellen Glenn <maryellenglenn@yahoo.com> wrote:

Yeah, I know.  It's just surprising to read about.

I never knew their corporate HQ was in Germany b4 supporting them.  If I do go into work, I go to the Whippany, NJ, office which is around 2 hours away.

I'm working for InVentiv Health Clinical which is merging with INC Research.  Supposedly they will be the 2nd largest Clinical Research Organization after the merger.  They will mostly likely change the name of the new company toward the end of this year. QuintilesIMS is largest CRO now.

I tried to get out of working for InVentivHealth because I got an offer at QuintilesIMS for a little more $.  InVentivHealth bullied me into taking the job - really, they threatened me.  I'm working from home now, so I'll see how that goes.  Lots of reading SOP's.  

The only project I have right now is working with the girl in Berlin, so I'm learning a lot about Germany from her.

Interesting history.
 
Mary Ellen
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From: Thomas Barry <tom-b@rcn.com>
To: MaryEllen Glenn <maryellenglenn@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2017 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: Bayer Corp.

should watch what news you share about bayer, they might not be happy with the nazi reference even if an apology.

frankly that was so long ago doubt the current employees/management have direct links.

personally i don’t like new orleans removing the statues of the civil war / confederate soldiers.  if nothing else they should remain so future generations will ask questions and not have our past no matter how bad redacted from public view.


On May 20, 2017, at 07:58, Mary Ellen Glenn <maryellenglenn@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm supporting Bayer's Clinical Trials.  In working directly with Germany, I'm finding out some interesting things about Bayer.


According to Sierra Club:

Honeybees:  America's beekeepers lost 23% of their hives in 2013-14.  The culprit is a widely-used class of neuro-toxix pesticides marketed by German chemical giant Bayer, called neonicotinoids, a type of insecticide that affects the central nervous system of insects, resulting in paralysis and death.  Without bees, we will lose our strawberries, avocados, peaches, pumpkins, and more than 140 fruits and vegetables that depend on honeybees for pollination.

When presented with scientific evidence that neonicotinoids are responsible for the demise of the honeybee, European Union officials acted immediately to suspend most of the uses of neonicotinoids in 2013 until further research could be conducted.  

The EPA claims the agency will review the situation in 2018.  So, in the US, we are still using this chemical.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer


Bayer became part of IG Farben, a German chemical company conglomerate, in 1925. In the 1930s, IG Farben scientists Gerhard Domagk, Fritz Mietzsch, and Joseph Klarer, discovered prontosil, the first commercially available antibacterial drug. The discovery and development of this first sulfonamide drug opened a new era in medicine.[25] Domagk received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this work in 1939.Bayer



During World War II, IG Farben used slave labor in factories that it built adjacent to German concentration camps, notably Auschwitz,[27] and the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.[28] IG Farben purchased prisoners for human experimentation of a sleep-inducing drug and later reported that all test subjects died.[29][30] IG Farben employees frequently said, "If you don’t work faster, you’ll be gassed."[31] IG Farben held a large investment in Degesch which produced Zyklon B used to gas and kill prisoners during the Holocaust.[32]
After World War II, the Allies broke up IG Farben and Bayer reappeared as an individual business "inheriting" many of IG Farben's assets.[29] Fritz ter Meer, an IG Farben board member from 1926 to 1945 who directed operations at the IG Farben plant at Auschwitz, was sentenced to seven years in prison during the IG Farben Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. He was elected Bayer's supervisory board head in 1956.[33]
In 1995, Helge Wehmeier, the head of Bayer Corporation, publicly apologized to Elie Wiesel for the company's involvement in the Holocaust at a lecture in Pittsburgh.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#cite_note-nydailynews.com-34


Heroin[edit]

Bayer Heroin bottle
Heroin (diacetylmorphine), now illegal as an addictive drug, was trademarked and marketed by Bayer as a cough suppressant and non-addictive substitute for morphine from 1898 to 1910.[16] Bayer scientists were not the first to make heroin, but their scientists discovered ways to make it, and Bayer led commercialization of heroin.[17] Heroin was a Bayer trademark until after World War I.Bayer



These are their consumer products.  They sell lots of other products, too.

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