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Re: If BNSF Workers Boycotted Fruit of the Loom...
Author: Fred
Date: 04-10-2014 - 17:01
HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
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> P. Kepler Wrote:
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> > When will the unions realize that their demands
> > are a major reason for jobs going overseas. A
> > corporation exists SOLELY for the reason of
> > generating profit, nothing else. Hostess Bakery
> > and their cessation of operations is a prime
> > example of labor demanding more than the
> > corporation can sustain and still post a
> profit.
>
> Unions are not always to blame, though I do agree
> that they can be apart of the problem at times.
> NAFTA and the Global Trade have done nothing to
> keep Jobs in America.
I kinda agree w/Hutch.
I grew up in West Mass in the 50's/60's. We lived in a basically union town; making taps, dies, other kinds of machine tools, hand tools, power tools, automobile brake shoes and so on. The kind of stuff that supplied industry and, at union wages, gave a worker a living wage (the funds to buy a 60 year old house, buy a used car, buy food, etc). In the 70's all this work went south to the "right to work" states. Coupla decades later, all this work went to Taiwan/China.
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> P. Kepler Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > When will the unions realize that their demands
> > are a major reason for jobs going overseas. A
> > corporation exists SOLELY for the reason of
> > generating profit, nothing else. Hostess Bakery
> > and their cessation of operations is a prime
> > example of labor demanding more than the
> > corporation can sustain and still post a
> profit.
>
> Unions are not always to blame, though I do agree
> that they can be apart of the problem at times.
> NAFTA and the Global Trade have done nothing to
> keep Jobs in America.
I kinda agree w/Hutch.
I grew up in West Mass in the 50's/60's. We lived in a basically union town; making taps, dies, other kinds of machine tools, hand tools, power tools, automobile brake shoes and so on. The kind of stuff that supplied industry and, at union wages, gave a worker a living wage (the funds to buy a 60 year old house, buy a used car, buy food, etc). In the 70's all this work went south to the "right to work" states. Coupla decades later, all this work went to Taiwan/China.
