Originally posted by: meltdown75
Why don't we just move all the jobs to Mexico? I hear the market value of workers is pretty cheap down there.Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: meltdown75
I wonder if you would have the same attitude if you were working on a line somewhere and went on strike only to have some scab come in and do your job for half the money.
That's the problem with union talk on this board. Most of the people that run unions and their members through the mud have never been a part of either. Put yourself in their position.
I'm not pro-union by any stretch but the anti-union attitude here is has always irked me.
If the company has to shut down when there is a strike, that gives the union a lot more leverage than they should have. They shouldn't have any more leverage than they can exert by not coming to work. If the company can hire replacement workers for less money, why should they have to bother with union workers who are demanding more money? This will force companies to pay union workers above market value.
Mexico itself is protectionist and don't like foreign national companies creating a presence there.