It doesn't have to be that extreme. But when unions demand over $20 per hour for menial labor, how can American manufacturers compete with the "slave labor" countries? Where is Wal-Mart supposed to find $20 shoes for its customers (which may be all that customer can afford), if it's impossible to find such a product made in the USA? Keep in mind, a lot of people shop at Wal-Mart because they can't afford Niemann Marcus. Where would you have working class people go for their housewares, socks and the like? Or should they just do without, in an expression of solidarity forever?
Yes and college educated non-union white collar workers in America demand 50 to 80,000 a year while in India, poeple with the same education are willing to work 12 hours a day for 6,000 a year! And lots and lots and lots of those jobs are now going overseas as well.
I remember an America where a person only capable of "menial labor" could still live a decent life and raise a family. Now the same person is doomed to try and compete with slave labor in communist China! The USA is going to pay a heavy social price for cheap shoes sold at the Great Wall-Mart.
Working class people?...c'mon, if it wasn't for government handouts Walmart wouldn't exist as we know it.
But when unions demand over $20 per hour for menial labor,
Who contributes more to OUR overall economy, a union carpenter earning $30.00 an hr. or a (possibly illegal)non-union carpenter working for $8.00 spending what money he doesn't send back to Mexico at Walmart?
My business has done more work for union members than for non-union members...Why?..They have more money to spend.