"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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"DSK" wrote in message
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John H wrote:
Gee, you would have thought the Textile and Clothing Workers
Industrial
Union
would have saved all those jobs. You reckon the union had anything to
do
with
the outsourcing of all that work?

I dooubt it strongly, since few textile plants in the South were
unionized
right up to the end.

I wonder which is better, taking a reduction in pay to $27 an hour
(fictitious
number) or a reduction to $0 per hour.


You're really full of ****. Do you think the average mill worker ever
got
anywhere near $27 per hour? What do you think they *did* get, if you
have
to pull fictitious numbers out of thin air?

Do you think that American laborers should compete on an "even playing
field" ie no pollution laws, no workplace safety laws, and $1/day wages
such as prevalent in the 3rd world? The only way to compete is through
technology... and intelligent management... both of which require the
application of a little political willpower...

Are you for or against the Kyoto Protocols?

The liebrals still don't get it.......in any labor intensive industry
where local does not matter (unlike building construction) the work is
naturally going to shift to locales with a cheaper labor force, regardless
of technology or management. If they don't, someone else will.......it is
simple economics.