[proxy_user]

How could trade deals impact building unions? As far as I know, China is not making buildings and shipping them here.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

They have to build the new factories and manufacturing plants!!!!

[cp124]

How could trade deals impact building unions? As far as I know, China is not making buildings and shipping them here.

If manufacturing starts coming back new facilities will need to be built and employees need houses.

[JBW1949]

More companies opening...Companies need buildings...Buildings are built by people...Companies are jobs...

[immadashell]

How could trade deals impact building unions? As far as I know, China is not making buildings and shipping them here.

There are lots and lots of decaying manufacturing facilities that have been standing idle for years that need lots and lots of refurbishing before they can restart production. Hopefully Unions have learned they have to work with management and not against them to introduce the efficiencies necessary to overcome the low wages offshore and across borders.

[Lorianne]

They are making a lot of building components and shipping them here. As well a lot of the raw materials to make building components are being mined/extracted elsewhere.

[Thibodeaux]

Elimination of the mexicans in the building trades will help the unions. Beside that, Trump likely knows all those present and especially the local leaders brought in to swell the size of the group. Brilliant

I think that the main, the primary result, was splitting the unions right down the middle.

The meeting was a slap, a disrespectful face losing action, directed at Richard Trumka and his industrial unions standing in the way of making America great again

It was a masterful stroke

[pierrem15]

Immigration: The building trades are directly affected. Plus steel and other building materials.

[Bryher1]

"How could trade deals impact building unions? As far as I know, China is not making buildings and shipping them here."

I'm pretty sure that Chinese companies and Chinese laborers have been building bridges in California. California even rejected stimulus money to avoid "buy American" clauses in Obama's stimulus bill.

[WMarshal]

How could trade deals impact building unions? As far as I know, China is not making buildings and shipping

Listen, I know that many patriots have learned to hate unions because the union ledership has aligned themselves with the far-left Democrat party. However, it doesn't take a stretch the imagination to believe that without American unions, the majority of Americans, you included, would be working 18 hours days, living in holes in the ground, and being fed scraps by corporations.

If you think union members are not real freedom-loving Americans then you need to explain to everyone on this forum why the Rust Belt, a collection of heavily unionized states, voted for Trump.

It is the union leadership, not the unions that is the problem. We need to find a way for regular union members to regain control of the unions - just like the rest of America needs to regain control of government bureauracracies, education, the legal system, and corporations.

I am as pro-Trump is any man you'll ever find and I'm the son of a union coal miner so I take offense with your branding all union members as Bolsheviks. They are good, honest, patriotic Americans and they deserve better than shit like this from you.

There is not one major pillar of American society that has not been infiltrated by far-left termites. Don't throw out the babies with the bathwater