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Steel workers were unionized, and there are less US steel workers now. Textile workers in the Carolinas were not unionized, and there are a lot less Carolina t
by VictorPath 4y ago
Steel workers were unionized, and there are less US steel workers now. Textile workers in the Carolinas were not unionized, and there are a lot less Carolina textile workers now.
The difference is Larry Page's grandfather was at a union job in Michigan in the 1930s and sent his son to college, and then his grandson started Google. Textile workers in the Carolinas got less education, and then the factories closed up.
- ETH_start 4y agoThere's no such thing as a free lunch. High union wages come at the price of spending inefficiency, which translates to less goods/services produced per dollar spent in the public sector, and industrial contraction in the private sector. Look at Detroit: it had the highest wages in the US in 1950. Over the 1950s and 60s, the UAW Union took over the Big Three automakers, with membership peaking in 1979. Around the same time, the US auto industry cratered, and today, Detroit is a shell of its former self and effectively a failed city.
- theGnuMe 4y agoThe collapse of Detroit was not due to unions.
- mickdeek86 4y agoWell put. Reminds me of these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Sleeping_Car_Porters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Sleeping_Car_Po...