Ironically American industry has responded to the challenge of unions, by exporting our factories to the largest organized labor union in human history:
The Peoples Republic of China.
I have been to China twice as a customer. We were having our equipment built through a vendor in China. This equipment is for mining so it qualifies as heavy industry. We visited several forging and foundry facilities and it just about made me want to cry.
One evening we had banquet with the management staff of one of the foundries. I asked the G.M. how many foundry plants were in China? He laughed at the question and talked to his subordinates and came back, shrugged his shoulders and said at least 40,000.
This particular foundry had only been operating for five years. When we arrived at the plant the first thing I wanted to see (if it was there) was the pattern shop. I figured that with the plant being so new that they were having patterns made in western europe or the U.S. Not so. I couldn’t believe my eyes when we went into the pattern shop. The quality was unbelievable. I asked how they were able to transfer that craftmanship over so quickly? The interpeter said “we have 2 billion people to choose from”. He also stated that China has 43 Einstien’s and they just need to find them. They pay ~$365 a month for skilled labor. How in the hell do we compete against that?
Try and get a permit for a new foundry here in the U.S... Won’t happen.
Nicely done, team. I withdraw my claim with a caveat. Obama and the evil political establishment he represents is aligning the fatal trilogy of unionization, environmentalism and statism.
But the rising tide of Constitutionalism is flooding us with the ancient spirit of freedom that flows out of Christian principles. Thereby will we regain our heritage and become, once again, a New Jerusalem, a shining city on a hill, with genuine HOPE and CHANGE in a sin filled world.
We are, after all, a Christian nation, birthed in a commitment to the One True God.
In truth we have lost our way, allowing ourselves to be driven by false gods. After running ourselves into a ditch we sought help from a political establisment that seeks to catapault us over a cliff into the pit of hell.
Ahhh. It’s Sunday morning. The spirit of sermonizing has got me. I will likely persist for a while, elsewhere, in deference to your sensibilities.
Praise the Lord.
Ironically American industry has responded to the challenge of unions, by exporting our factories to the largest organized labor union in human history:
The Peoples Republic of China.
The key being that the Chinese “union” has negotiated a rate of only about $20 a day for its skilled workers. That’s the kind of union that management can’t help but want to work with.