Barnyard BOb -- wrote

excellent stuff snipped
The PRICE of vehicles is SET BY MARKET FORCES, never worker costs.
Regardless of worker demands or costs... GM would be derelict, by the
rules of capitalism, if they did not CHARGE ALL THE MARKET WOULD
BEAR. What they don't spend on workers is either put in the profit
column or in the pockets of management.

Most jobs lost to overseas are lost more to OSHA, EPA and
other government compliances than any worker attempting to
max out on the fortunes of his mega-billion dollar employer.

Case in point....
If the terminated shoe workers of the USA would work
for FREE, Nike still would not come back to the USA
when they can violate all standards of health and
humanity overseas by making $250 shoes for 75 cents.

Barnyard BOb --

You just described the past situation of Reback (can't spell) in the
Philippines. Their government got greedy and started putzing around
with their business (extortion) and Rebak moved it to mainland China.
The workers in both places have no benifits at all and make "zip point
****" an hour. If you doubled their wages it wouldn't be what the gov
was gouging the shoe maker for. Estrada: by some counts squirreled
away more than Marcos did of the Philippine treasury. The only answer
for us blue collar slobs: Unionize and strike. Otherwise the robber
barrons of this world will reach into your pocket and squeeze
everything thats down there. Bad management deserves unionization.

pacplyer
there's nothing like flying under a contract