Chinese Auto Glass Magnate Faces Union Challenge in Ohio (the UAW lost)

New York Times ^ | 11/08/2017 | KEITH BRADSHER, NOAM SCHEIBER

[FreedomNotSafety]

Many Freepers wont follow a link to the slimes so I will summarize. The owner of this company is described in a literal rags to riches way. Nearly starved by the Chicoms, up from his bootstraps, and now seemingly a good person. Builds a factory in the US because GM asked him to. Says he thinks the US should re-industrialize.

He built a factory in one of the few rust belt states that still has closed union shop laws. The UAW targeted it and campaigned hard and they still lost despite the fact that his company did not even fight back in any meaningful way.

[Gen.Blather]

When the unions came out for Obamacare and then the union members got hurt by Obamacare, the union members began to evaluate what the union was doing for them. They didn’t like the answer.

[PGR88]

As Communist armies approached Shanghai four years later, Cao's family fled by ship to this area of southeastern China, near his father’s hometown, but lost almost all of its possessions.

One would think with his in-depth experience in dealing with socialist parasites, Cao would know what unions like the UAW are all about.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Unions in China are strictly controlled by the Communist Party.

Unions in China are illegal. What's this nonsense about strictly controlled?

[rrrod]

Unions are like ISIS....

[central_va]

Unions suck but the are really a samll problem. Only 10% of the manufacturing sector workers in the USA are represented by a union.

[Theoria]

Lol...illegal = strictly controlled.

[Alberta's Child]

The 10% figure is meaningless in the context of this article. The article is about a union drive that would have unionized 100% of the workers at this particular auto glass manufacturer.

[catnipman]

Hope his U.S. factories make better replacement auto glass than the absolute crap made in China, which is about the only kind now available in the U.S.

[central_va]

The emphisis on union this and union that sways public opinion that ALL manufacturing is evil and needs to be offshored. When in fact 90% of manufacturing workers are not in a union. This is favorite straw man tactic of the globalists.

[central_va]

You can still ask for OEM glass but just be willing to pay a little more.

I always ask for OEM windsheilds. Chances are it was made in the USA and secondly it can take punishmsnt.

[rdcbn]

The reason for the record low union membership is because workers have caught on that unions eventually either destroyed the companies they organized or forced them to move offshore.

The best path to prosperity and high wages is a dynamic and robust economy where pretty much any worker can walk across the street and be hired for a better job on the spot if he or she thinks she is being underpaid or poorly treated.

[Alberta's Child]

I think you're delusional and posting crap about something that hasn't even come up at all. This is an article about a Chinese dude who opened a manufacturing plant in the U.S. that employs 2,000 Americans ... and I haven't seen a single comment that says these jobs should be offshored anywhere.

If anything, I suspect most people here would agree that the demise of unions in the U.S. will go a long way toward helping revive American manufacturing employment.

[Alberta's Child]

I think there are three reasons union membership in the U.S. has declined:

1. Union labor became so expensive that employers had to figure out ways to hire as few union workers as possible.

2. As you mentioned, union leadership has completely undermined the rank-and-file workers.

3. Unions began pushing for government policies like entitlements and government-run health care that basically gave people the kind of things that unions used to bargain for on behalf of their members. Who needs a union when you can just get Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama to give you free sh!t even if you're not employed?

[central_va]

How do demise unions when they are at all time lows? Should we completely de industrialize the USA to rid ourselves of the tiny vestige of unions in the manufacturing sector? Yeah, that’s the ticket. Not.

[rdcbn]

Union work rules and terrible productivity also has made automation far more cost effective

[central_va]

Union work rules and terrible productivity also has made automation far more cost effective

Automation is great as long as the factory STAYS IN THE USA.

[Alberta's Child]

I don’t even know what you’re asking. There’s no need to “demise” unions that are already dying off. The UAW worker at a Ford plant in the Midwest is being replaced by a non-UAW worker at a Toyota plant in the South or in Texas.

[Buffalo Head]

One of the problems with most windshields now is that they are considerably thinner than those of the old days to save weight, which improves gas mileage. They are also a structural part of the body now and take more forces and strain than previously. Most all rock chips soon propagate into long cracks.

These are typical of the problems incurred when legislators are allowed to get involved with product design.

[central_va]

Nobody has a problem with Americans “displacing” other Americans. “Displacing” being the globalist term for being sh!t canned. The problem is when Mexicans and Chinese “displace” US workers.