[C19fan]

I bet that really worked out. How many jobs at these plants are left today?

[Frantzie]

Probably zero but the area is being flooded with illegal aliens. I think the carpet mills in Dalton, GA are filled with illegal aliens now.

[Moby Grape]

“I bet that really worked out. How many jobs at these plants are left today?”

Over the years I worked for three different textile companies that are no more...almost all are gone now.

And the entire time the dems promised, and the unions promised, to save those jobs.

[Pelham]

Those plants were killed off by globalization. It’s labor intensive work and low wage countries have an advantage. The Multi Fiber Agreement, GATT, and the WTO all played a part.

[vaudine]

Not many in the south. The regulations of govt. and free trade orgn. and the new global shift in mfg. "offshore" have all conspired to close down way too many of the south's garment factories.

Conversely, so many of them were hard and stingy on their workers, it is no wonder Rachel R. wanted to make it better.I think the original union organizers did a lot for workers. Then, as power and money grew in unions, they became magnets for mafia and mafia minded criminal elements, and got in bed with the Dems to coerce and regulate.

Seems the pendulum never equalizes, but swings from too little to too much and back, hitting "just right" only briefly on the way.

vaudine