This is what’s so crazy about the people in Ohio, especially in Northern Ohio. They complain about all the manufacturing jobs being lost to China and Mexico, but they ignore the hundreds of thousands of jobs that have left, or will leave for Southern states that have right-to-work laws.
Oh yeah. I grew up in Northern Ohio and live in the South now. The truth is, not everyone in the old Industrial Midwest is ignoring the jobs going to the South. That’s exactly the reason for “card-check.” Card-check is nothing other than a way to get around Taft-Hartley and destroy the right-to-work state.
Unions have created a new sectionalism in the United States. You heard some of that rhetoric last winter during the debates over the auto bailouts. Midwestern Democrats blamed opposition to the bailouts on Southern Republicans who they claimed actively wanted to bankrupt GM and Chrysler in order to help the foreign companies that build cars in non-union shops in the South.
Frankly, I think the South should be unapologetic about this. The foreign companies are bringing jobs to the South, while the Detroit companies are just taking our tax dollars while subsidizing the political activities of the unions.
If the Midwest wants their jobs back, they should think about looking at what worked for the South rather than try to use Washington to tilt the playing field back in their direction.