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Old 12-12-2010, 08:02 PM
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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.

Studies show that the level of unionism has an inverse relationship to the wealth gap, and thus a direct relationship to a healthy middle class. I don't understand why a great majority of Americans would not want to strengthen the middle class.

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Old 12-12-2010, 08:06 PM
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You get what you pay for. Oh wait, thats only if its made in Asia..
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Old 12-12-2010, 08:29 PM
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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.
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.
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Finn, I have (well had, unfortunately she was killed in a traffic accident) a very dear friend in Germany and enjoed my times there but the people and the government are two different things. Just as my friends in Europe like us as a people but did not always find our various administrations exactly loveable.
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Old 12-13-2010, 08:51 AM
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Finn, I have (well had, unfortunately she was killed in a traffic accident) a very dear friend in Germany and enjoed my times there but the people and the government are two different things. Just as my friends in Europe like us as a people but did not always find our various administrations exactly loveable.
What's interesting though are the European countries that we just love to criticize making the tough decisions to get their economic houses in order. Somehow, their political systems (in the northern European countries, anyway) seem to allow tough decisions to be made. Ours, on the other hand ........
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