What can a union do when the company "outsources" to Mexico (happened too to Square D in Beeslow - company moved to Mexico and opened up the Square D factory there the same week Bertie Aherne visited it).
Trouble is when you outsource all the good paying jobs to cheaper countries, the products still have to be imported and then - who's gonna be able to pay for these products when most new US jobs are poorly paid - hairdressers, McJobs etc. The US middle class - the bedrock of the US economy - is being hammered at the moment and the unions have little influence in the matter.
It's going to happen here too - sooner or later - in some similar form.
I mean, what kind of role CAN the unions play here**??
**Accepting the fact that there are good unions and poorly run unions.
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