Quote:At a sprawling manufacturing complex here, hundreds of Chinese laborers are now completing work on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Next month, the last four of more than two dozen giant steel modules — each with a roadbed segment about half the size of a football field — will be loaded onto a huge ship and transported 6,500 miles to Oakland. There, they will be assembled to fit into the eastern span of the new Bay Bridge.

Surely a Blue state like California with a democrate legislature would not allow US and by extension California jobs to be offshored?!?

Quote:The new Bay Bridge, expected to open to traffic in 2013, will replace a structure that has never been quite the same since the 1989 Bay Area earthquake. At $7.2 billion, it will be one of the most expensive structures ever built. But California officials estimate that they will save at least $400 million by having so much of the work done in China. (California issued bonds to finance the project, and will look to recoup the cost through tolls.)

I thought only EVIL corporations run by Republicans chose to save money by sending jobs offshore.

Look for the Union Label

They saved 400 million. I wonder what they pay in unemployment.

Slave wages for a bridge = OK
Slave wages to make Nike sneakers = evil

That's it, I'm boycotting California!

Uh... the old bridge fell down and they expect the new one to fare better with Chinese manufacturing?