From: Spudboy100@aol.com
>Samantha, I beg to differ on this one. Decades ago Unions were
>strong and were in a position (for good and bad) to exploit the
>stupidities of management. Since the 1970's there certainly has
>been a fall-off in Unions in the USA. Some of this is structural
>as Americans priced themselves out of the global labor market, in
>some cases , producing goods like cars and electronics that the
>Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese would beat on both price
>and quality! Let us not forget the Labor lawyers hired buy
>corporations to beat the Unions, and get legislators to enact
>anti-Union laws. Now the lawyers have turned around and have
>enticed workers to sue on a conditional basis, in many cases
>splitting the fee 50/50 when the achive a win. Corporation
>management is afraid of lawyers. For they have produced a legal
>system that in a darwinian sense, has come back to bite them on
>their asses.
Spike,
There are 5 car plants at last count who's total production output
goes to Japan, likewise Sony will tell you that it's electronic
manufacturing/assembly plants in the U.S. have the highest
productivity/quality of any of their plants.
These facilities were moved here because it was cheaper to
manufacture here. One of the key components for productivity is the
education level of the workforce, yes even in assembly tasks.
The majority of scientists in this country are Union.
The millionare players of the NBA, NFL, etc, are Union.
The AMA at it's last meeting voted to Unionize.
Brian
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