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Originally Posted by d-ray657
My entry was not intended to aim criticism at Germany. I was pointing our both the irony and the sadness that another company was coming here looking for cheap labor. I don't mind foreign companies setting up shop here at all. However, if anyone want's the advantage of a union label - which shows that the goods were built under a union contract, and makes them more marketable in most of the construction market - they should pay the union wages and benefits that the union label represents.
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Don - Don't worry about any sensitivities I may have about modern Germany. They're my own hangups.
As for unions in construction, it's down to about 15% I think. I'm not so sure that a union label, per se, makes anything in construction more marketable. I do understand though that if one wants the union label, you have to pay the tariff.