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Originally Posted by ColdCamaroSS
Well, I guess we've seen both sides of the coin then. I think the Chinese GOV cares a great deal with regards to pandering companies and profits than the USA and stymie workers rights in the process. Unions have played a small role with jobs being driven overseas, but I highlighted the main factor, GREED. Corporate greed IMO. Look, I don't mind rich people being rich but the gap between the rich and the poor is has risen so much over the past 30 years, while blue collar salaries have been stagnant is proof in the provebial pudding. It is just cheaper to employee outside labor.
A recent article points out the iphone as a perfect example. It would cost approximately $65 more to manufacture the iphone in the USA. Huge profits would still be made by Apple, but employee Americans. Now, the article goes on to describe how impossible it would be, due to the way the Iphone is made, with over 400,000 chinese workers assembly by hand, living on grounds in dorms and that the supply chain for the components couldnt work due trade agreements....but $65 dollars more to have it made in the good ol' USA, but gotta keep those stock holders happy.
Union or not, we have reached a point in our society that unless a major industrial breakthrough happens that enables to employ a large amount of people instead of minimal wage consumer/consumption based jobs then it won't be long before we are the cheap labor of the world.
Some people want job security and unions help provide security and stability for blue-collar workers. Obvisously, I am a Union Brother but that doesn't make me blind, I am very close to accepting a potentially high risk venture that would make me much more happy and wealthier but has the potential to fail (without fault of my own), making my decision much more difficult.
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I won't argue any of that.
Unions are only one part of the deal too. I don't get hung up on the issue because it's not the big problem. IMO Gov. is the biggest problem and I'll leave it at that.
In my business I would go out of business in the first month if I had to buy American made product. In fact our product can't be made in America. It would cost too much. Our clients would not be able to afford it. I mean TRIPLE the cost. If the Gov were to impose tariffs on all imports more it would hurt my business. I'm still FOR it. But I'll take a big hit. I'll pass it along to my clients accordingly the best I can but I may lose clients over it.
I don't have the answers but I know who does. lol