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Unions really helped keep factory jobs in the country, didn't they?

• xyzzyz 5y ago
  People here don’t seem to get the basic fact that the industrial union made off shoring more attractive, not less.
  • Ericson2314 5y ago
    Yes, but the solution to a race to the bottom isn't to not be the top. We need unions and capital controls based on the counterparty's labor and environmental standards.
    • BobbyJo 5y ago
      That's a shared understanding of acceptable working conditions informing both union policy and import/export policy. Unions as an output of a much larger change upstream, as opposed to an input when talking about outsourcing.
• CRConrad 5y ago
  Funny, didn't the rise of offshoring coincide with the decline of unions in the USA? So: Getting rid of unions really helped keep factory jobs in the country, didn't it?