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by Jerry Large at the Seattle Times
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/inferiority-complex-might-be-keeping-some-american-workers-down/
SNIP........
Companies can make good profits while paying workers well.
Germany has strong unions, and also German factories have work councils, where managers and workers come together to solve problems outside of union action or management fiat. And the Germans are profitable.
A few years ago the business magazine Forbes ran an article with this headline: How Germany Builds Twice as Many Cars as the U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice as Much. It was based on a more detailed piece from remappingdebate.org.
And heres a headline from the British newspaper The Guardian: Do American autoworkers have an inferiority complex? Its from a piece on automobile plants in the South, and it was written three years ago after workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted to reject unionization. The article said the same company pays its German workers more than three times what it pays autoworkers in America.
Now lots of foreign-car manufacturers have plants in the South. They get to say their vehicles are made in America, which helps with sales. They get tax breaks and other incentives and, of course, a cheaper labor force.
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Bear Creek
(883 posts)[link:http://www.alternet.org/economy/robert-reich-why-trumponomics-will-fail-spectacularly|
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They really believe that USA has a higher standard of living and wages than any where else. They all think that they dont want the rules to change because some how they are going to be in charge and they want to be the tyrant. Today at work they were disscussing Don the Con. They voted for him because they wanted their jobs. Looks like ol Don the Con doesnt want to spend the money. And all the idiots said was whatever is best for our country. I was expecting this but it will not make it any better. Trump has managed so far is to make people lose their jobs.
RedWedge
(618 posts)applegrove
(118,778 posts)unions off against going south. Look at those mid westerners who voted for Trump thinking by getting rid of illegals wages would go up. Against their own best interests and believing what they were spoonfed.
Bear Creek
(883 posts)But southern companies. The republicans have been convincing people the confederates should have won the civil war. People do not have a clue of the worker rights that is being taken away from them.
Bear Creek
(883 posts)Be glad you have a job. Used to be if you performed well you would get rewarded with pay and or bonuses now it is you want to keep your job that is good enough.