Kim Jong-un runs N. Korea better than Democrats run Detroit

[JoeBlam]

It was a push back to the gains made by the American Workers (Unions and collective bargaining).

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.e...8099,d.aWM#search="unions were against nafta"

The type is hard to read, but I limped through the first paragrah, {cant c/p}

it concluded that people couldn't buy company products and that it would loose out in the end.

Clearly this is a lie, since companies thrive doing it and always have.


but now we are off topic

Globalization killed Detroit.

Abstract

[Excerpt] The move to cheap labor and unregulated enterprise abroad puts an individual firm in an advantageous competitive position. But in the aggregate, this movement creates conditions for global economic stagnation. An enterprise cannot have constantly cheaper foreign sources of supply and constantly lower wages and benefits at home, on one hand, and constantly expanding domestic and foreign markets to sell its goods, on the other hand. As each firm sheds workers, cuts the wages of those who remain, and invests in cheap labor sources for manufactured goods, it will find that mass purchasing power to buy its products has dissipated.

Proponents of NAFTA sought to mask this contradiction with rhetoric about "dynamizing" the North American economy. New U.S. investment in Mexico made secure by the terms of NAFTA would expand the Mexican middle class and create demand for products and services from the United States. U.S. workers in low wage, labor intensive sectors, who would have lost their jobs anyway to Thailand or to Poland, would now find productive work in sectors serving a growing North American market.

There is no evidence that this is anything more than rhetoric. Where large investments in Mexico have been made by Ford, Volkswagen and other auto manufacturers, workers’ wages have been cut and their unions enfeebled, even where productivity rivals that of the home factories. Where substantial investments have been made in the maquiladora, wages are held to a pittance. Massive layoffs and plant closings have been announced by U.S. companies with investments in Mexico—GE, GTE, AT&T, IBM, Xerox and others. Meanwhile, the Chiapas uprising exposed Mexico as desperately in need of far-reaching social and political reforms, not elite deal-making with the United States.

Japan is fucking over their workers now that they are aging and in need of healthcare and pensions, same as how they worked over Detroit's disadvantage. So the Thai's and Koreans, and Indonesians are getting the jobs the Niponese used to enjoy and look what it's doing to the Jap economy......it begs the old question, make it on the cheap and then try to find somebody to sell it to.

 

[Wyatt earp]

You mean workers making good money?

Not anymore huh?

maybe they could have made a little less and still be working.

no, of course not, far better to stimulate the economy on unemployment

Yeah, because it's every workers goal to make less money.

"Sorry boss, you're already paying me too much so keep the raise and spend it on something nice for yourself instead."

"Sorry boss" ? dont have a clue on Unions do you?