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Originally Posted by Mutt
You do realize that it took the trade union movement and the example of other countries like Japan to make that happen? Workers like the ones you employ today not too far back in history were treated and paid horribly and if not for the unions and government regulation it would still be the same way today. Today our captains of industry do it at arms length via offshore sweat shops and if they could get away with it here they'd still be doing it here.
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My first job was as a machinist in the very building I just purchased. I was a member of the aerospace & machinists union. Along side of us we had steelworkers union as well. I agree that the US might look like a 3rd world country today in manufacturing if it had not been for unions in the 1950's. But the pendulum swung to far and the unions became far to powerful. The plant we are moving in had 1100 employees at one time.
I think one of the larger issues facing the board of directors of large corporations is the unyielding demand to create profits so the shareholders get their dividends.