No hyperbole in this country’s loss of good union jobs to China
September 6, 2012 8:28PM
Updated: October 9, 2012 2:44PM
No hyperbole in this country’s loss of good union jobs to China
When democratically, member-elected union representatives and company representatives meet to bargain a labor contract, both sides realize they are engaged in the very essence of democratic compromise.
Good-faith union bargainers realize going in that the company’s success is paramount and that if the company is not successful, the workers cannot be successful.
Good-faith company negotiators respect the words of Republican President Abraham Lincoln: “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Fair company bargainers know that workers are the company’s most valuable asset.
Unfortunately in 2012, as in pre-union “robber baron” times, many — not all — globalist American corporations do not respect the words of President Lincoln. If profits decline, as in this largest economic downturn since the Great Depression, some CEOs blame their union workers. They never take any responsibility for their poor management decisions; they attack unions on right-wing radio and Fox News, which incites corporate-fooled fools to call on their tea party legislators to pass union-busting laws all the while demonizing pro-union President Obama for supporting middle-class workers.
Upon completion of the legislative and media blitz, these modern-day “robber barons” close down operations and take American jobs to places such as communist China, where unions are outlawed and where the ultimate bottom line — all the money for themselves and their communist goon partners — can be achieved.
For this type of greedy CEO, communist China truly is “corporation heaven.” Some writing in the Courier-News find this “corporation heaven” statement to be comedic, nonsensical and political hyperbole. But those Chinese workers — toiling in this “worker hell” with no worker rights and no job safety laws — don’t find humor at their workplace, and they ain’t laughing on their mandatory 16-hour-day, seven-days-a-week work shift. China is a communist country; that is a FACT, not left-wing political hyperbole.
Ivan Sizemore
Bartlett
