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To: smarticus
Oh really? Tell that to the workers at the Ford plant in Mexico, they went on strike to try to get the right to unionize, and to get a wage increase. The managers at the Ford plant called in the Federalies, and they attacked the striking workers with machine guns, killing at least one, and then after the strike was crushed, the people went back to work with a 50% pay cut. This little item went almost unreported in the media.

Millions of mexicans are in the US illegally because there isn't any work in mexico. This means that it's a buyers market for labor in mexico, and those ford plant workers stayed with a 50% pay cut because no one else will hire them. A unionized strike only works in a tight/sellers labor market, then the management must pay. A paying job is better than being unemployed and starving, and is an improvement for most mexicans(lifting their boat).

41 posted on 03/24/2002 10:01:22 PM PST by Eagle74
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