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[carver]

Originally Posted by OcelotZ3

Hardly, as others have stated, Union membership has declined a lot over time.

Consumers themselves have priced American made products out of the market. They don't value made in America over lower prices, which is why Wal-Mart is so popular. As soon as one company jumps ship to have goods made overseas and sells them for a lower price point, other companies will follow, which they have in droves.

Many high-tech companies that are non-unionized have been shipping jobs over to Singapore, Malaysia, and China for years. Mine is in the process of doing that right now, and we are supposed to train the new engineers who will be taking over our jobs.

But hey, let's just say it's the unions fault. Yeah, that's the ticket. Nice, simple, easy way to assign blame/an enemy, no complex analysis needed of markets, price points, etc.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm

Union membership rate in 2010 was 36.2% for public sector workers, which was substantially higher than the rate for private sector workers at 6.9%.

According to Hannity last night, "There are more public sector union members in America than there are private sector workers, union, and non-uniln, combined".

I don't know about you folks but this tells me that there are most probably more people in the Public Sector Unions, than there are tax paying workers, in all of America, to pay their salleries!

[dge479]

I wil go with what I know about, being in the auto industry. Every american manufacturer of autos maks some product out of this country. Ford, Chrysler and GM all make cars here, as well as Mexico and Canada, and all have used the Aisian companies to build cars. Ford usses Mazda,Chrysler uses Mistsubishi,GM uses Daawoo after buying them, they used Toyota in the past.
Most of this is so they can compete. It costs alot to build cars here with Unions, Environmental laws,etc. How much will you pay for a Focus, Caliber, Cobalt when a Corola or Civic would be less money. I am not happy with this but it was happens. When I buy a car I look for the 1st didgit in the vin If it is, than it is made here.