Jobs are not automatic today. They are a commodity that an area needs to purchase. People are finally realizing you need to pay someone to supply jobs for your people.
And then there’s this:
“We don’t have a culture that values union organizing,” says Haley Barbour, the Republican governor of Mississippi who persuaded Toyota to locate a Prius plant in Blue Springs in northern Mississippi. “Our workers like overtime and pay for performance. They feel like they get a better deal without the union.”
That line stuck out at me too. I live in the deep south and my neighbor drives a truck for a water company delivering water. He makes good money. The Teamsters would like to organize them but most everyone is against it. Although his pay would increase he would lose his weekly and yearly bonuses, so he would wind up making less. I guess if he was a slacker he would be pro union but he works hard and likes his bonuses.