That’s exactly what’s going on.
Unions have spent OVER $100,000,000 campaigning against Trump , that’s rank and file dues .
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-unions-war-232382
Say look I’m just saying that the anti union stance in the Trump white house won’t be lost on the union voters he got to vote for him in 2016 !
Can he win those rust bucket states without them ?
I just don’t see that happening in 2020 .
He got our vote talking new trade deals and bring the work back so far NO new trade deals and few to no factory’s being built to house returning manufactures .
If this were his show he would be forced to fire himself !!
You do know where the concept of labor union originated from right? It’s a Marxist construct and not sure why you are arguing this point, Trump has his allies in the right place and the enemy is both the corrupt swamp and China! If Trump goes down so too does the union by way of China!
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Did you know there’s a difference between the Clintonistas and these radicals who think they no longer have to hide that they’re socialists?
I mean besides the difference that some still feel the need to hide it because it helps them get elected that is.
Yes, a big difference!
The Clintonistas (which are more than just the Clintons, really a whole group of people) will sell us out to the ChiComs just as they’ve done for decades now … where the unashamed socialists will give us away for free.
This globalist government declared a financial war on the working class union and non decades ago !
Getting workers out of collective bargaining is a wet dream for most corporations .
As far as I’m concerned unions were hard fought for gift from God you call it Marxist I say what ever gets the job done .
We can see what happened in America a hundred years ago we only have to look to Communist China and the other third world country’s American globalist fled to once the government opened the door for them .
t was business as usual in Rana Plaza in Bangladesh’s Dhaka District on April 24, 2013. Hundreds of garment workers reported to work like always. But the day before, they’d noticed an unsettling sight: cracks in the walls of the multi-story building. Still, the laborers were told to return to work the next morning
“Given the long record of worker deaths in factories, this [Rana Plaza] tragedy was sadly predictable,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. Bangladeshi workers receive among the world’s lowest wages — reaching about $37 per month after a series of violent protests in 2010 — and must toil in sweatshop conditions to fill orders catering to consumers in Europe and the U.S.
In November, 112 garment workers died in a factory fire at Tazreen Fashions Ltd. in Dhaka. There were then 41 other “fire incidents” in Bangladesh factories — killing nine workers and injuring more than 660 — in the following five months.
Eight-hour days became rallying cries in the latter half of the 19th century, as workers in the building trades and similar industries marched together for better conditions. The Ford Motor Company advanced the idea in 1914, when it scaled back from a 48-hour to a 40-hour workweek after founder Henry Ford believed that too many hours were bad for workers’ productivity.
The formation of unions helped to strengthen the idea of working five days a week as well. In 1937, auto plant workers staged a sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, to protest bleak conditions at General Motors that included no bathroom breaks, no benefits or sick pay and no safety standards.
By 1910, the number of children working had grown from 1.5 million in 1890 to 2 million. Congress tried to address the issue in 1916, by passing the Keating-Owns Act that set tighter standards on children’s employment requirements. The law stated that children 14 years or younger could not work in factories, children 16 years or younger could not work in mines, and a work day could not exceed 8 hours, start earlier than 6 a.m. or end later than 7 p.m. Although initially promising, the restrictions would not last long: just a couple of years later, the act was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
The negotiations between GM and the United Auto Workers ultimately improved working conditions. The federal government would show its support when Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, a key part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Aside from the 40-hour workweek, the Fair Labor Standards Act also included several reforms in place that Americans can appreciate to this day — establishing a minimum wage, overtime pay and putting an end to “oppressive” forms of child labor.
Young boys working in the coal mines were often referred to as Breaker Boys. This large group of children worked for the Ewen Breaker in Pittston, Pennsylvania, January 1911.
Holy crap dude! You have to publish a book here? Unions is a Marxist concept and we will never agree on this! It’s the reason why jobs left and destroyed the middle class. They kept wanting more and just like this OP we now know the reason why!
Union nonunion they were all American’s that lost jobs . They were all American factory that closed . And all the money America lost went to China NEVER came back !
As I remember it textile’s were the first to leave America in the 1980 and most of the textile’s produced in America were in the non union south .
China now employs 5.3 million workers, the most in the world, an increase of some 2 million workers since 1980.
Much of production capacity and jobs have shifted to the developing world. In the twenty years from 1970 to 1990, the number of TCF workers increased by 597 percent in Malaysia; 416 percent in Bangladesh; 385 percent in Sri Lanka; 334 percent in Indonesia; 271 percent in the Philippines; and 137 percent in Korea.https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_008075/lang--en/index.htm
It is also hard to miss the enduring costs. In 2004, Maytag shut down the refrigerator factory that for decades was Galesburg’s largest employer and moved much of the work to Mexico. Barack Obama, then running to represent Illinois in the Senate, described the workers as victims of globalization in his famous speech that year at the Democratic National Convention.
A decade later, many of those workers are still struggling. The city’s population is in decline, and the median household income fell 27 percent between 1999 and 2013, adjusting for inflation.
George Carney, who drove a forklift until the day the factory closed, and then found work as a bartender, is now receiving federal disability benefits. He says he is bitter that American policy makers smoothed Maytag’s road to Mexico by passing the North American Free Trade Agreement in the early 1990s.
You are right jobs left because of wages but if the truth were known those jobs were lost more because of safety regulations environmental regulations and child labor laws !
We only have to look back into labor history to see the parallels to America before the union movement was successful in changing safety rules and globalization today .
Just before 9 a.m. on April 24, the eight-story Rana Plaza, which contained five garment factories, collapsed in the Dhaka suburb of Savar. The building housed at least 3,500 workers and opened despite warnings to close after severe cracks appeared in walls. The owner of Rana Plaza, Sohel Rana, has already been brought before a court and had his assets seized.
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 145 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable–most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers.
It was a true sweatshop, employing young immigrant women who worked in a cramped space at lines of sewing machines. Nearly all the workers were teenaged girls who did not speak English, working 12 hours a day, every day.
Those capitalist that fled America just turned the clock back a couple hundred years and killed thousands of their employees !
You seem to think that Marxist labor concept as a bad thing and it may have been if you were a sweat shop owner that exploited the women and children that slaved and too often were injured or died working for them .
And we have to be thankful for the capitalist that have been exploiting and killing their workers for century’s
As far as Americas working class we can thank politicians that we trusted to do the right thing for working Americans and they fucked us hard !
How stupid are the working class we will see in 2020 ?
Though we need to give them credit for being deeply concerned about jobs for those that they really represent: the Democrats.
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