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Old 11-01-2012, 07:21 PM
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IG Metall has agreed with the German manufacturers opening plants overseas as they believe it will help the companies remain profitable and help them keep their union jobs. I think IG Metall is largely agnostic about whether the plants overseas are unionized or not.

That said, if I were a foreign company opening a plant in the US, I would do my best to locate it in a place free from the UAW.
As would I.

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Old 11-02-2012, 06:15 AM
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If you could forget your bias for maybe a day and look into the history of the UAW they did a lot of good. And like most 'good old days' the good old days of the big three were not.
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IG Metall has agreed with the German manufacturers opening plants overseas as they believe it will help the companies remain profitable and help them keep their union jobs. I think IG Metall is largely agnostic about whether the plants overseas are unionized or not.

That said, if I were a foreign company opening a plant in the US, I would do my best to locate it in a place free from the UAW.
Well of course. Why pay a decent wage to your workers, with good benefits on top. Just plant it in a southern republican state and they will be happy to get Walmart wages for the job.
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Iirc back in the early 2000s' Germany put through a bunch of labor law reforms, with much wailing.

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Iirc back in the early 2000s' Germany put through a bunch of labor law reforms, with much wailing.

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As much wailing as we had to endure after 2008 election?

In the 1930s-40s Hitler sent labor unionists to the deathcamps. I'm sure he just wanted to empower the remaining employees.

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