both gm and fuyao, i actually started in the same part of the plant, in the same corner. >> macgillis were different than what he was used to at gm. >> you started out at $12 an hour. after 90 days, you got a raise up to $12.84. >> macgillis: the starting pay has since gone up to $15 an hour, but that's still barely enough to keep a family above the poverty level. will american worker to get used to lower manufacturing pay than they had back ten, 20, 30 years ago? (speaking chinese): >> manufacturing is not what it used to be. we used to think of manufacturing as these good, stable, middle-class jobs. but because of the decimation of the industrial heartland, essentially now those who are building manufacturing companies in former industrialreas are doing so on a totally new model, a model that's built on much, much lower pay, and much weaker benefits and job security. (music playing over speakers >> macgillis: in december, fuyao's employees gathered on the factory floor for thean compy's holiday dinner. it was a more festivoccasion than 2008, when gm shuttered this factory two days b