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To: looscnnn
Union wages contribute significantly to the corporate decision to move operations out of country. When you're paying a high school dropout $30/hr to produce consumer goods while allowing comparable goods imported at 1/3 the cost, what CEO will choose the former? It's a no brainer!
7 posted on 01/14/2004 8:51:47 AM PST by rj45mis
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To: rj45mis; RLK; looscnnn
Union wages contribute significantly to the corporate decision to move operations out of country. When you're paying a high school dropout $30/hr to produce consumer goods while allowing comparable goods imported at 1/3 the cost, what CEO will choose the former? It's a no brainer!

Nah, it's more like a reason for RLK and looscnn to go ballistic. Afterall to them business owners are evil and the enemy.

13 posted on 01/14/2004 9:01:44 AM PST by Dane
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I think to a degree your point re: "union wages" is a valid one...

Every day, we read about another corporate giant replacing thousands of American jobs by moving operations to India, China or another foreign country where skills equal to those of Americans can be purchased at a fraction of U.S. wages and salaries.

I also think the author's "First World" to "Third World" points make some sense...

However, this being a topic of such concern to everyone, what I would really like to see is a detailed list of specific "corporate giants" who haved moved US jobs to other countries, including how many jobs were moved, which countries they went to, and whether the companies also created any new jobs here (like a "net" gain or loss of US employees in all jobs, per company)

That information would be more "productive" to the discussion than simply saying "Every day we read about another corporate giant..." etc. etc.

23 posted on 01/14/2004 9:23:27 AM PST by 88keys (never vote for a person who can do nothing right...)
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To: rj45mis
Union wages contribute significantly to the corporate decision to move operations out of country.

Not really --- that might contribute significantly to the corporate decision to move operations to states with Right to Work laws and little union organization. Moving operations out of the country is a different matter. Besides American interest in unions has been low and fading for decades.

35 posted on 01/14/2004 10:02:24 AM PST by FITZ
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