i'd suggest to him that unions are the cause of manufacturing moving over seas.
I disagree. Labor costs are no doubt a large part of it, but not unions. Union or not, you can't compete with .20 cent/hr labor. You can't work for that, can you?
there was an article in the paper recently stating that union labor, health care, and so-called "legacy costs" amount to $7,500.00 of a new ford.
legacy costs are the health care and retirement of retired workers.
american union auto workers are over-paid.
>Union or not, you can't compete with .20 cent/hr labor. You
>can't work for that, can you?
Sure you can Bob. You're being a luddite in insisting that we Americans live in weather-proof houses with indoor plumbing and running water.
If the American worker would only agree to place his/her children in the workforce at age 13, live in a tent, and eat every meal off the McDonald's 99 cent value menu...$0.20 is a living wage.
I once managed a plant where we beat the Koreans and then the Chinese on price producing valves using American castings.
We raised gross manufacturing profit from 35% to 49% while simultaneously rasing wages 25%.
Everybody won, and nobody had to work for 20 cents an hour.