Much as I hate to agree with unions, they were right twenty years ago when protesting about sending manufacturing overseas: China doesn’t care about safety standards, they do things cheaply and only care about the bottom line. Enough!
Right or wrong about it, and outside of whining to the DNC about the loss of membership, the unions have done nothing to help home-grown manufacturing competitiveness. Send them a mirror.
I beg to differ. Unions share much, if not all of the blame for the loss of jobs. Employers had no other alternative but to buy off their senators and congressmen and get free trade rammed through. Unions ushered in an era where it didn't matter what kind of education you had as long as you could squeeze another nickel out of your employer. The country was held hostage to their whims. Wage parity literally went out the window. Without wage parity, many union longshoremen in Long Beach still make >$150K per year. That's a lot more than a lot of doctors or rocket scientists who have 8-12 years of expensive college education.