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Oh they do something, they help destroy a company’s ability to compete. Take a look at unionization of the auto industry in Detroit back in the 70s and 80s whic
by zthrowaway 6y ago
Oh they do something, they help destroy a company’s ability to compete. Take a look at unionization of the auto industry in Detroit back in the 70s and 80s which basically killed our lead in the industry and gave it to Japan and Korean companies on a platter.
- sanxiyn 6y agoThose Japanese and Korean companies were also unionized. Mighty strange how did they compete, right?
- sethammons 6y agoIt is as if you can’t compare the two very different societies. I think it is better to keep US union talk focused on US unions.
- Jweb_Guru 6y agoThe auto industry was unionized way before the 70s and 80s. UAW was founded in 1935. What on earth are you talking about?
- IndPhysiker 6y agoI believe the GP is referring to the rapid depression in the area when auto companies started moving south to open-shop states (e.g. Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee), not the original unionization.
- Jweb_Guru 6y agoIf a sector unionizes, and then forty years later jobs move away, blaming everything on the unionization does not make a whole lot of sense.
- claudeganon 6y agoMost automotive workers in Japan are unionized, so that sounds more a problem with comparable executive decision making than anything to do with labor organizing.