Jobs and factories are two different subjects. Jobs are comming back, factories the unions have killed and sent over seas.
I dont know about that, companies are still closing and movign overseas and getting rid of american citizen workers. In the past week alone, cross pens, Tyco, B&W, EDS, Compuware, sBC, Trane, Ford, New Technology Network-BCA Corp, airport screeners, Duke Energy, Carrier, SAbre, JP Morgan, etc. announced the ending of tens of thousands of american jobs. We still are having new unemployement claims of nearly 400,000 after 3 years of this with no end in sight. There are so many people unemployed, or underemployed, that our income tax receipts are half a trillion below what we are spending.
Dont say the jobs are comming back until EDS and others announce the hiring of tens of thousands of american citizens, until we hear day after day of more and more new factories opening up here in america, etc.
Unions have been here for a hundred years.
If it was unions that was causing the problem with losses of jobs, and with factory closings in america, it would have happened a long time ago.
The big job losses and net factory closings correlate to reductions in tarrifs over the past couple of decades, and to unfair trade agreements with other countries in the past several years.
It is not a coincidence that companies that have been here for a hundred years, who have been unionized for over 50 years, are now closing, and no new factories are being built. We had unions in the 1940's and 1950's, and there were plenty of new factories being built all the time in america.