Posted on 09/26/2024 1:02:14 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
How does stripping workers of union representation “save” the industry? The industry has managed to flourish for over a century of unionization.
As it is, steelworkers’ wages place them solidly dead-center in the range of US national average income.
You’re conflating a “strong steel manufacturing base” with ownership domicile.
The Daimler Benz workers in South Carolina couldn’t give a tinker’s damn whether their wages come from Stuttgart, Detroit, or Timbuktu.
(By the way, domestic steel production has increased 50% in the past 15 years.)
“How does stripping workers of union representation “save” the industry? The industry has managed to flourish for over a century of unionization.”
They weren’t competing against non-union workers, so they had a monopoly. It’s over now, as history has shown.
“As it is, steelworkers’ wages place them solidly dead-center in the range of US national average income.”
Anyway, it’s not a ‘wage problem’ it is an ATTITUDE PROBLEM.
Honda and Toyota both pay the same as the UAW, but the plants operate at less than half of the cost (hence the much better cars). Others, like VW, and Toyota’s Saturn experiment, ended up in disaster, as they allowed the unions to destroy them.
Yes, Harris has work now Nippon that in the bud. 🌷⛩️
She wants the state to take over it.
Uh, didn't Rosie O'donnel tell us fire can't melt steal. I'm so confused.
It will die. Nippon will get it for cents, sans union.
US Steelsan.
Behold the Potemkin candidate. She's a whole lot of nothing.
Behold the Potemkin candidate. She's a whole lot of nothing.
I can understand misgivings about a Japanese company owning a major steel plant in the US. If China does a lightning-fast invasion of Japan, to get even with them for the Marco Polo Bridge and the Rape of Nanking, that would give them control over the steel mills, at least on paper.
The U.S. steel industry has been in decline for decades. It’s now a shell of its former self. U.S. Steel itself was once the largest company in the world in any industry, and Bethlehem Steel finally closed down in 2003.
These companies were only able to survive under strong union influence because so much of the business was in government contracts for things like military hardware and highway bridges.
Manufacturing steel requires ENERGY and LOTS OF IT.
Manufacturing steel requires COAL and LOTS OF IT.
That might change if Nippon Steel takes them over and actually wants to grow market share.
The entire US government just spent billions to ensure Tiktok doesn’t have xhinese ownership.🤷♂️
Most people are always starting to make waves about Chinese owned land. It matters to someone and when it comes to steel which amounts to critical capability it would be pretty silly to have 100% of all steel companies owned by...Russian Oligarchs.
>>”Both presidential candidates should keep out of this.”
Keep out of this? You’re kidding, right? This is exactly the sort of thing Presidents are supposed to care about. Whether or not it’s ultimately approved, it shouldn’t just be rubber stamped without the executive branch taking a hard look at it to see whether or not it compromises jobs or national security in any way.
Harris is playing "me too" and it's anybody's guess what would happen if she's elected.
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