[metesky]

Too bad, so sad...

You Sothrons were all pretty gleeful thirty years ago when all those textile mills and jobs left New England for your parts to obtain cheaper labor.

I said then that the cycle would start again and the unions would screw the pooch. (see the movie Norma Rae)

What goes around, come around.

[mac_truck]

You Sothrons were all pretty gleeful thirty years ago when all those textile mills and jobs left New England for your parts to obtain cheaper labor.

Good point. But at least those jobs stayed in America. There is a certain irony to having a textile export quotas tripled for Vietnam, while 90,000 textile jobs in the south are lost. Makes you wonder what those brave sons fought and died for over there, doesn't it?

[arly]

Yeah it's whole lot better to be supporting jobs in Ho Chi Minh City then Dalton , Georgia isn't it?

[Jorge]

You Sothrons were all pretty gleeful thirty years ago when all those textile mills and jobs left New England for your parts to obtain cheaper labor.

I said then that the cycle would start again and the unions would screw the pooch.

Exactly. I used to be in the clothing industry, until the jobs moved south for cheaper labor. In a short time the same jobs moved right out of the country.

[Rebelbase]

There are many textile mill workers that have repeatedly told the unions to take a hike and many mills that are non-union, Norma Ray be dammed. There is something in a Southerner's spirit about defiance that you'll never understand.

Even at $10-12/hr. The southern worker still cannot compete with foreigners who do the same job for peanuts.

[Eaker]

You Sothrons

Do you speak like this to a Southerner's face?

How about a Texan?

Eaker

[Moby Grape]

I do not totally discount your point about jobs leaving New England to the South, but, MOST of the mills in the South were built in the late 1800's through the early 1900's....to say the jobs left the north to move the cheaper labor in the South is not really acurate...the companies downsized and concentrated to the South where there was a strong work ethic that had not been ruined by the unions that cared more about the number DUES PAYING members that the survival of the companies...however the labor costs WERE less, as you have pointed to, but also the cost of living was less, the TAXES were less that those areas in the north controlled by tax happy democrats....(pay per hour was not the only reason for the migration south...and it is not the only reason for the migration off-shore.