Posted on 02/08/2024 8:52:39 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
Steel has become an integral part of the American economy. But as a large portion of the sector is being "sold off to the highest bidder," members of the United Steelworkers (USW) union are sounding off over the transaction.
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I was thinking more from the Cold War perspective, and in keeping Soviet-influence out of the Labor Unions.
The plan is to strip all industry from the US, one way or another.
We will be a nation of basket weavers and trinket makers.......................
Indeed.
You can easily buy a high quality American made car today. Look for the “Toyota” or “Honda” nameplate ...
“No non U.S. citizens should be able to own land.”
And no dual citizenship.
They'll outsource that, too.
After McGovern lost to Nixon in 1972, the unions pretty much became Communist organs..................
OK ... maybe it worked then, but unions have supported the democrat party for more than half a century. And that ultimately led to them being communist.
Agree 100%.
I stated that on previous threads.
There are no dual allegiances.
Didn’t their very own Union fully support Biden?”
Yep as all unions do.
Because that’s when the Communists took over the Democratic Party.
Maybe their union contracts contributed to why the American owners of U.S. Steel wanted out. Let’s see how long Nippon Steel can keep it’s U.S. mills running profitably, or will the unions make the situation even worse.
> 90% of union PAC $$ goes to Democrat pols.<
I was an involuntary member of a union for decades. The membership was politically diverse. Everything from Bernie Sanders supporters to MAGA guys (and gals).
Now here’s the thing. Never once did we get to vote on who the union endorsed, or where the PAC money went.
All of that was decided behind closed doors by the union bosses. So why not vote those bosses out? Impossible. They employed election tricks that would make Stalin blush.
Yeah. About that.
My Dad started a metal fabricating business in the early’60s. He and Mom were fairly successful locally, he had over a dozen employees at one time. One thing he complained about back then was “cheap Japanese steel” in the US market.
What concerned him at the time was the quality- he didn’t think it met U.S. standards. I don’t know whether it did or not. He also railed against labor unions. He didn’t like their business practices- and after WWII he was an iron worker, and a union member.
He fought against the Japanese, and up to the day he died, he hated them.
I know things are waaay different now, but Dad would be spinning in his grave if he was aware of what is going on .
> I’d rather have a Japanese owner these days than pretty much any other country. <
I reflexively want American steel to be owned by American companies. But by golly, you make a good point. American companies these days are often woke and inept. And they’re now run by bean counters, not engineers.
Would American steel even survive if run by Americans?
(Hell of a question, isn’t it?)
Have you ever read Ian Fleming's Bond books? It's interesting to read works from the 50s and 69s that speak to the commies controlling unions in Western Europe and doing what they could within the black community, too. Granted, it was fiction, but it was built on some kernels of truth.
Where do you go, what do you do?
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Firstly , increase your prayer and church time.The good Lord looks after his children and will “ guide” you.
I was lead years ago to study the South American collapses, and even worked down there. Having friends from Argentina ( it was once the richest nation in SA), I studied the collapse that started in the early 2000….yes, twenty years ago, the similarities to the US are astounding, unpayable debt, then a currency crisis kicked it all off.
Over the years I could see how their wealth was preserved, and lost.There is one lone “ survivor” I know of, as everything was crumbling he prospered….
the road to wealth preservation has many forks, one wrong turn will cost you.
Timing is ev.erything.
My father also was in WWII. He was in the navy, on convoy duty in the Atlantic. He didn’t hate the Germans. But he despised the Japanese. I guess Pearl Harbor made the difference.
Anyway, I could never buy a Japanese car as long as he was alive. Well, I guess I could have. But then he’d never speak to me again.
Yeah, same here.
The silver lining though is the union gets the purple shaft. Just like the pipeline workers uhion.
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