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The COL and tax difference isn't 2x. Alabama doesn't have unions, so they can't bargain collectively. That's the whole reason manufacturing has been moving sout
by kesselvon 9y ago
The COL and tax difference isn't 2x. Alabama doesn't have unions, so they can't bargain collectively. That's the whole reason manufacturing has been moving south
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Alabama doesn't have unions Alabama disagrees: https://labor.alabama.gov/inspections/unions.aspx https://labor.alabama.gov/inspections/unions.aspx
- kesselvon 9y agoAlabama is a right-to-work state, unions aren't as effective and there's significant action by local politics to suppress labor activism and organization
- dragonwriter 9y agoThat's true and important, but it's very different than "Alabama doesn't have unions", is all I'm saying. (It's kind of like saying "C doesn't have static types" just because it's type system is far less powerful than, say, Haskell's.)