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In reply to the discussion: We romanticize manufacturing jobs when what we really miss are unions. [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)I'm pretty sure it isn't unions, who have no say whatsoever when a company takes its workforce overseas.
Our trade agreements are negotiated by corporate interests with only token participation by labor and environmental interests. Maybe that isn't the case in Germany?
You can't compare relations between EU nations in a similar way to relations between the U.S. and China, for example, the economies and labor markets are radically different.
Relations between EU nations is closer to relations between different states in our country, where as you say the Republicans have weakened labor in right-to-work-for-less states, allowing the corporations to move to the least regulated state (Texas runs ads on northern California TV stations encouraging our tech businesses to leave for their state and its friendlier business environment).
Someone here must know what keeps German companies hiring Germans instead of moving their shops to hire Chinese, Indians, Indonesians, Vietnamese, South Korean, etc.