In a message dated 9/27/2006 5:29:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marnie, I think that the United Auto Workers were so successful in negotiating benefits for their membership in the '50's, '60's, and '70's that all the jobs have moved to cheaper labor markets off shore. Employment by the big 3 US auto makers is what? ...10% of what it once was. Regards, Bob S. ====== Yeah, that's an underlying problem for sure. American workers with a decent wage guaranteed benefits can't compete with foreign workers who will work for pennies with no benefits, i.e. foreign sweat shops.
Workers unite! World-wide that is. Marnie aka Doe ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net