Why is America giving these countries the contract to make goods to be sold in America. Yet America hardly gives the Americans the job. Is it really because they are cheap labor or more to have good relations or something else?
2007-07-14 18:40:57 · 6 answers · asked by airlines charge for the seat. 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Labor Unions at the onset did a lot for the American worker, but it seems they have priced themselves out of a job due to cheaper labor in other countries. If you want an American made car you have to buy a Toyota. The problem we have with other countries is opening their markets to American made products. China is one that we have a trade deficit with because they will not open their markets. Look at the Long Shoremens Union. $90.00 per hour plus perks. How much does that add to consumer goods. When the Big Three car makers started cutting back and going off shore the Union wages was about $53.00 an hour. In comparison the Mexican workers that make VW went on strike last year for a increase to $30.00 a day.
2007-07-14 19:03:54 · answer #1 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, let's blame the unions. After all, what did unions ever bring us other than the 40-hour week, maternity leave, bans on child labor, bans on sexual, racial, and age discrimination in the workplace, workplace safety standards, employer-supported healthcare, pensions. We don't need any of that stuff, right? It would be better if we were all still working in sweatshops for 16 hours a day until we died from an improperly installed machine!
2007-07-14 18:48:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Capital will chase after the cheapest skilled labor it can find.
2. There's nothing you can do about Rule #1 and remain calling yourself a capitalistic economy.
2007-07-14 19:21:02 · answer #3 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because corporations see the international labor market as useful to keep from having to pay adequate wages in their own countries.
It's called corporatocracy.
Get used to it.
2007-07-14 18:53:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One word that summarizes the problem: unions.
All they do is complain and the companies get fed up. So, they move their plants to foreign countries and exploit the cheap workers there.
2007-07-14 18:44:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
cheap labor and less taxes.
2007-07-14 18:47:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋