Posted on 07/03/2018 9:50:19 AM PDT by Bigbrown
Just curious, when I grew up (70s) I remember one of our neighbors father was a union man. He had bumper stickers all over his vehicles in signs in front of his house to buy American products. What happened to that thought of we should look at American manufacturers before other countries. At that time, it was that everything we were importing was made in Japan. Where is the union out rage about not supporting American companies and buyIng American products?
Trump supports that cause now.
Most union members don’t make anything, no skin off their nose if you drive a Honda.
Most union members don’t make anything, no skin off their nose if you drive a Honda.
A Honda made in Marysville, Ohio, using parts from 533 different US suppliers?
Labor unions are global entities now......................
People want cheap prices. NAFTA and allowing China into the WDO priced them out of jobs.
Unions are such a small part of the non government workforce they have almost no influence.
I check where everything I consider buying is made, and the country of manufacture matters a lot to me. I also check for the union label. If it says “UNION”, I will not buy it. I am disappointed in those who just look at price.
Cheap? Really? Cheap labor only gets you so far in retail price reductions.
Yep.
Well, let’s see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di’s clothes. I couldn’t believe it.
"But I was talking with a person who I wouldnt necessarily agree with politically. It was a person whos very senior in the AFL-CIO, and he was telling me this story. It wasit was a dinner, so there were ten of us listening to this story, and it was about how he heard, in a closed-door session, a very senior executive at one of the worlds largest investment banks, and the question was posed, well, dont you worry about the effects of globalization on this group of people who you share this country with, and his response was, why do I care about themyou know, I donttheyre not shareholders of minetheyre not employees of minemy shareholders are internationalmy business partners and customers are internationalmy responsibility, consequently, is much more international and I, frankly, dont care about those people in the middle of the country."
In other words, America is only a piggy bank to them. There is zero loyalty to the people or the concept of America.
I work with union guys. They are all misinformed hypocritical gun-toting marxists who act like mafia if you don’t agree with their propaganda literature.
You can’t even get them to reason because they’ve been spoon fed the social-gospel since joining.
What happened? The unions happened, worker greed happened, and that priced a lot of goods out of the reach of a great many Americans. Why else do you think so much production was sent to third world countries with low wages, taxes and restrictions?
The union guys were patriots at one time but the union lawyers turned unions into racketeering enterprises.
When you have millions of union members paying $50 every paycheck, what do union lawyers and politicians see?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
So it’s not surprising politics got into bed with unions.
Eventually, the hard left took over the franchise.
As for the Japanese. their products were sh*t in the 60’s. Then along came their industrial savior who just happened to be a jilted American that union and corporate lawyers told to take a hike. Who was this American?
W. Edwards Deming
http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/total-quality-management/overview/deming-points.html
While the American establishment and their union bulldogs were telling Deming to go eff himself, the Japanese invited him to Japan, gave him the red carpet treatment, and followed his every word.
By the 1970s and into the 1980s, Japanese manufacturing and engineering quality controls under Deming’s philosophy were kicking American butt all over the place.
Then along came Reagan and we know or should know the rest of the story.
Now it’s time to bring back American manufacturing to the levels before the hard left ruined it and remind union workers to pay attention to the lessons left by Deming.
Cheap prices are only half the issue. Labor unions lost a ton of credibility 30-40 years ago when you started seeing many products made with non-union labor (both domestic and foreign) that weren’t just CHEAPER than union-made products, but BETTER QUALITY.
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there!
My dad was a union guy. My grandfather was a local president for decades. That was in the 60’s and 70’s. These guys were the most pro America, patriotic guys in the world. They marched in the 4th of July parade, organized with the American Legion to put flags on vets grave markers, started their meeting with the pledge of allegiance etc. I wonder what they’d think of what’s going on today. And BTW, they were democrats through and through...you know, because the democrats cared about the little guy.
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