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In reply to the discussion: We romanticize manufacturing jobs when what we really miss are unions. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)"What's this fixation with manufacturing jobs?" fixation. Given hat the article is pointing out that good pay's NOT about manufacturing per se, responses to this thread are making me wonder.
Since everyone knows the old manufacturing jobs are gone or going and not coming back (and most are not training for the new ones), could there be a sinister plot to make people think "manufacturing jobs" whenever the issue of good pay is raised? As in also gone and not coming back?
"Unions + manufacturing = Germany." One of my classes once posited that the reason unions did so much more poorly here than in Europe was that here the relationship has always been basically adversarial, while in Europe a far better degree of cooperation was the norm.