Show of hands, fellow Democrats. How many of you would choose to let your job go overseas?

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7. How about a show of hands for letting your job go to a right-to-work state like Alabama?

Do you think the numbers would be any different?

It is best if I do not lose my job at all, but is it more in danger from a nonunion shop in a low-paying, right-to-work state like Alabama or from a union shop in a high-wage economy like that of Germany and Sweden.

General Electric has been good at outsourcing to states where unions are weak, like the South, for many decades.

"... after losing a 1946 strike badly, management adopted a hard-line stance against unions, preaching the gospel of individual responsibility. GE closed plants in the unionized North, shipping jobs South and West, and adopted a “take it or leave it” approach to negotiations, termed “Boulwarism” after its labor relations chief."

http://labornotes.org/2012/03/unions-seek-regain-foothold-ge

And GE is far from the only company to use 'outsourcing' to the South and other right-to-work areas to weaken/break unions. Good paying union jobs have been lost due to "Boulwarism" and the domestic outsourcing of companies like GE for decades - long before China ever freed itself from Mao much less joined the world economy.