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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

Warpy

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2. Women were disporportionately represented in textile mills

Reply to Teamster Jeff (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2013, 11:54 PM

Jan 2013

and the garment industry. When the whole industries were shipped offshore, that made a huge dent in union membership.

It's scary to think we don't make something as basic as cloth in this country any more.

This country won't survive the next big war, even if we stay out of it and only suffer trade disruption. We no longer make too many of the things we need.

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