I’d like to know more about this. I saw a special a couple of years ago about the Ford plant in South America. It was a city, with all of their major subcontractors under the same roof. They reported great efficiency with this model, but said it could never work in the US because of the way union contracts were structured.
I would like to know more about the role unions play when it comes to restricting new ideas and innovations in the factory.
there are a number of right to work states now.
one could slash and burn taxes an wages an still not hold a candle to India or Mexico.
I saw it with graphics departments in Manhattan.
workers in india paid ONLY when they were actively on a project, which on a slow day, could be 3 hours out of 8, an paid a third of the hourly rate.
you’re talking 24 dollars a day to 200 a day.
the work is AWFUL and the bankers spend more hours fixing the final product than it originally took to create, but they dont get paid by the hour.
Google "Labor Union Featherbedding"
It isn't just labor costs that these companies are fleeing. Increasingly burdensome environmental regulations are playing a significant role was well. Ford recently moved a die-cast manufacturing facility to Mexico when it became cost-prohibitive to comply with U.S. environmental laws.