[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 9/27/2006 5:29:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Marnie, > I think that the United Auto Workers were so successful in negotiating > benefits for their membership in the '50's, '60's, and '70's that all > the jobs have moved to cheaper labor markets off shore. Employment by > the big 3 US auto makers is what? ...10% of what it once was. > Regards, Bob S. > ====== > Yeah, that's an underlying problem for sure. American workers with a decent > wage guaranteed benefits can't compete with foreign workers who will work for > pennies with no benefits, i.e. foreign sweat shops. > > Workers unite! World-wide that is. > > Marnie aka Doe ;-) >
Marnie, A heck of a lot of those jobs went to Oakville, Ontario. Many of the rest are elsewhere in the US (Toyota, BMW and Honda all have large factories in the US and Canada, most cars sold in the US today are built in North America). In both cases the workers are more productive for less cost, but still get plenty of benefits, albeit less than the ones in UAW factories in the US. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
