[circlecity]

"You somehow forgot to mention the jobs are being OUTSOURCED. To Mexico.This is not about unions."

The unions are what made the labor costs so high that the company had no option but to outsource or perish.

[redgolum]

Little safety or environmental costs in Mexico. The workers live in cardboard shacks and work for so cheap you couldn't survive in the US.

I don't like unions, but this isn't the issue here.

[Will88]

The unions are what made the labor costs so high that the company had no option but to outsource or perish.

Well, enlighten us all. What do you think the pay per hour and benefits for those Electrolux employees in Ohama should have been?

[Frantzie]

Electrolux plant in MN largely has Somali muslims. I hope that one gets shut down too. Keep watching TV cause ALL of TV eneables Obama including Fox. beck and O’Reilly love Obama now.

[BillM]

It isn't the wages, it is the ‘work rules’, seniority rather that productivity, and the uncertainty about work stoppages that inevitably kill unionized companies and industries.

[HamiltonJay]

I don’t know the specifics of this case, but you cannot just blame union at every juncture. “Free Trade” often kills jobs even in plants that are profitable because why pay a person $15 plus bennies when I can pay someone $2 an hour with no bennies??

Unions can definitely kill a plant, but they aren’t always the reason why jobs move.

“Free Trade” is probably one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated on the American Experiment. “Fair Trade” makes sense, “free trade” where third world countries get open access to markets without having to do jack to earn it is a complete and total scam.. it winds up propping up dictators, promoting abuse, and killing economies.

Free Trade among equals is fine, but that is not what is going on today at all.

[CGASMIA68]

zacly unions make everything to expensive to mfg,produce,supply and the list goes on.
Unionism is Socialism