SobieskiSavedEurope
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They didn't. This is a myth you stupid people believe. Only 13% of the manufacturing jobs lost were lost to outsourcing. Trump has convinced dumb racists like you that brown people fucked you when it was rich people.
And you stupid White Trash shits keep believing it.
As overseas outsourcing has expanded, U.S. manufacturing has suffered the brunt of the blow. According to a report on outsourcing by Working America, “Manufacturing employment collapsed from a high of 19.5 million workers in June 1979 to 11.5 workers in December 2009, a drop of 8 million workers over 30 years. Between August 2000 and February 2004, manufacturing jobs were lost for a stunning 43 consecutive months—the longest such stretch since the Great Depression.” Manufacturing plants have also declined sharply in the last decade, shrinking by more than 51,000 plants, or 12.5 percent, between 1998 and 2008. These stable, middle-class jobs have been the driving force of the U.S. economy for decades and theses losses have done considerable damage to communities across the country.
Labor costs are the main driver of corporations sending jobs overseas, but foreign countries’ costs are increasing compared to the United States. According to a 2012 survey from Duke’s Fuqua School of business, nearly three-quarters of respondents indicated labor cost savings as one of the three most important drivers leading to overseas outsourcing.
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Real hourly wages have declined since the 1970's, and Union membership has also declined since the 1970's/
So, it seems that Capitalist myths of wages being too high, and Unions being too strong are not so.
These Capitalists just want to maximize their profits at all costs, they don't care about our nation.
It was not a myth at all. Wages did go too high and unions were too strong. What they did is create a wage bubble. It was no different than the tech bubble or housing bubble; all bubbles burst.
During the housing bubble, rich people kept buying more and more properties. During the tech bubble, people kept buying more and more internet sites and starting companies. Nobody wants to face reality that good times never last forever.
That's the same thing that happened in the big union days.
But, between the 1970's - 2000's wages went down quite a bit, and union membership went down significantly.
Yet, all we saw was even more jobs outsourced as wages, and Union memberships went down.
Percentage of businesses unionized peaked in 1954, union enrollment peaked in 79. The numbers are misleading as private sector unions were losing members in the 60's, about that time public unions got stronger.
What union do you belong to? Do you buy only union made product? Do you shop only at union stores?
Union membership declined quite heavily by the 2000's, yet there was a steep upswing in outsourced jobs in the 2000's, and also a steep upswing in the 2000's of hiring illegal immigrants.
So, how could Unions be the problem?
I don't belong to a Union, I work at a local Pet feed store.