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Thread #35445   Message #485185
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
16-Jun-01 - 08:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Do we still need unions?
Subject: RE: BS: Do we still need unions?
Greg, I think that unions indeed have a lot to do with it, in addition to competition in keeping down the cost of goods. A company simply cannot manufacture a television in Rochester, New York for the cost of manufacturing one in Malaysia. And if the Rochester Company tries to compete with the Malaysian Manufacturer, they will find out how just how little the "Made in America" stamp means to the modern consumer. There's no doubt that obscene profits are being made, and that few corporate CEOs are worth anything like the hundreds of millions they are banking yearly. I am really not defending corporate employment and manufacturing practices....I'm just trying to say how I think it is. Now the question is, if a Sri Lankan family is eeking out an existence on a small farm, their lives hanging on the success or failure of a harvest, who are we to say that an opportunity for them to go to work in the Fruit-of-the-Loom Factory for $6 a day isn't a good option for them, taking into consideration their present situation?