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In reply to the discussion: VW threatens to block any future expansion plans in the South, citing conservative interference [View all]Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)You see German companies do not equate employee organization as a threat. While they certainly may have been the case many years ago, today unions are brought into a cooperative model where the welfare of the company and the workers is much more tightly linked than in this country.
Labor is recognized as an ESSENTIAL part of providing goods and services, not incidental to them.
Wall Street and the culture of the MBAs is that anything that prevent unlimited, unbridled growth and profit, regardless of morality or morality is the enemy.
And that is why there has been so much tension between "management" and labor in this country.
Unions are also to blame for not recognizing the need to be part of the solution and not the problem but I have seen little to suggest management wanted their help. They just wanted the cheapest labor they could get, period.