Passing The Employee Free Choice Act Would Mean More Outsourcing

• January 10, 2009

Either to “right to work states” which don’t force employees in unionized labor forces to join the union, or to foreign countries that are free of America’s overbearing labor unions altogether.

The migration of companies from the rust belt to the sun belt that became a stampede in the 1970s was fueled in part by the desire to escape union requirements that made companies less competitive. Since EFCA will increase unionization dramatically and could bind companies to terms to which they didn’t agree, it’s reasonable to conclude that more companies will consider relocation, perhaps even off-shore. Regardless of whether one thinks the relocation is right or wrong, justified or unjustified, it’s sheer fantasy to believe it can’t or won’t happen.

What amazes me is that the Employee Free Choice Act is all about taking away the ability of employees to organize (or refuse to organize) through the privacy and security afforded by the same sort of secret balloting we use to select our political leaders, and it still enjoys widespread support from leftist politicians. We also know the EFCA will kill industry in this country, especially in non-right to work states, but again it still has support.
Wonder why that is? It’s because organized labor is a big business that enriches a lot of union bosses across the country, and by extension a lot of politicians who line their pockets with the largess said union bosses dole out.
Big Labor is just another corporate giant that’s “too big to fail” and so must be propped up with ridiculous policy at the expense of the rest of us.

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http://Array robert108

Nobody treated anyone badly. Why shouldn’t they pay corportate taxes? These same bums think that it is perfectly appropriate for our troops to risk their lives when corporate profits are threatened. All the while they are willing to throw American workers in the streets rather than lose a smidgen of those profits. Then they hide behind the flag and portray themselves as patriots.

Nice Marxist screed. Nothing you wrote has any relation to reality, just like Marxism has no relation to reality.
ollie-B

Nobody treated anyone badly. Why shouldn’t they pay corportate taxes? These same bums think that it is perfectly appropriate for our troops to risk their lives when corporate profits are threatened. All the while they are willing to throw American workers in the streets rather than lose a smidgen of those profits. Then they hide behind the flag and portray themselves as patriots.
2Hotel9

No, Greg, don’t let their bullshit and lies stand. Make them prove that American troops are fighting for corporations profit margins.

This,”"These same bums think that it is perfectly appropriate for our troops to
risk their lives when corporate profits are threatened.” is a lie. If it is not then prove it true. Do it now, lying assed America hating scumbags.
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If I read your post correctly, Rob, I believe the correct term is not outsourcing (hiring contractors to work in your factory), but rather offshoring (moving all the capital to China or India).

Of course, India’s chances of getting new factories probably took a little hit when aggrieved workers decided to kill the plant manager.

And 2H9, if you can provide a source for your contention and put it in context, that’s very interesting. If you can, let us know more, as that would certainly be a silver lining or outright rebuttal to the complaint against the EFCA proposal.
ollie-B

Act or no act, the companies will go where the cost is cheapest and the profits are the highest. Corporations have no loyalty to country. And quit telling us that past acts forced companies to comply with certain union conditions which made them less competitive. Maybe if they weren’t so busy lining the pockets of the board of directors, their cronies and the CEO, they would have had the necessary finances to remain viable. Like you, they are just using the unions as scapegoats.
We like it here, we like it here. You’re fuckin’ A we like it here!
robert108

The first rule of business is the business must stay in operation or everyone loses.

Actually, it must make a profit, or there is no business.
2Hotel9

Wrong! The “employee free choice act” is the single greatest weapon with which Americans can destroy unionscum. All you have to do is sign it as a “No”, 20% of employees in a unionscum shop say no and the unionscum have to leave. Out the fucking door. Zero(0) legal recourse! RULE OF LAW.
2Hotel9

“These same bums think that it is perfectly appropriate for our troops to
risk their lives when corporate profits are threatened.”

How about providing proof of this. Lets us see it, ollie-b a moron.
sayanything-4625

These same bums think that it is perfectly appropriate for our troops to risk their lives when corporate profits are threatened.

Most of you guy’s could care less about the troops unless it is something you can use to bludgeon the Republicans.
Free story, a major American company had an engine plant in Milwaukee, WI. The union went on strike asking for a huge raise. The company told them that they could not afford the raise and gave a counter offer. The union refused. The company told them that the raise would make them unprofitable and they would move the plant to a town in Alabama. The union laughed, the company shut down the plant and moved to Alabama. Production went up, attendance went up and quality shot through the roof. The company was happy, the workers in Alabama were happy and profits soared and allowed the company to do R&D. Unions get in the way. Do not be surprised if forced unionization causes companies to move to other states or countries. If the company can’t survive it can’t pay wages, insurance or pensions. The first rule of business is the business must stay in operation or everyone loses.
Lioncourt

Most of you guy’s could care less about the troops unless it is something you can use to bludgeon the Republicans.

That’s bullshit. Unlike most of the Republicans here, I have been a troop. I care for them deeply. They are not just statistics to me, but people. However, there is a misuse of troops which I always protest.
sayanything-4625

That’s bullshit. Unlike most of the Republicans here, I have been a troop. I care for them deeply.

Well, I have been a soldier also. My old Guard unit just got back from a year on active duty. So they are people to me as well. I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree about the war because I and everyone else I have talked to that has been over there think it was a good war.
robert108

Unlike most of the Republicans here…

A counterfactual assumption.
2Hotel9

Read what the Congressional Democrats are proposing. Here is the Sourcewatch piece, I will try to get the actual Congressional Record copy.
Kramer

Thugery, plain and simple
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Maybe if they weren’t so busy lining the pockets of the board of directors, their cronies and the CEO, they would have had the necessary finances to remain viable.

All companies have to turn a profit. If we make our domestic companies less profitable through unnecessary regulation and taxation, of course they’re going to go elsewhere. It’s human nature.

Why stay loyal to a country that treats you badly?

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