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	Name:	MrHodja -
	Subject:	Outsourcing is a Business Decision.
	Date:	7/16/2012 10:20:26 PM

You forgot Mercedes in your list.

A big part of the attraction of manufacturing to certain states is that they are right-to-work states and the unions don't have a stranglehold on the businesses. At one time in our history unions were a good thing.....negotiating a fair wage, reducing unsafe conditions and practices in the workplace, etc. But the unions didn't know where to stop and began to make such ridiculous demands that they actually hurt their own cause.

I was in Charleston last week and on one of my trips from the office to the hotel I drove past the new Boeing plant. It was really nice to see four brand spanking new, gleaming 787s, bearing different airlines' logos, parked out beside their behemoth factory hangar. Of course most know the story of the unions' grip on the NLRB and their attempt to keep the Charleston plant from opening....but again they overtstepped and the right thing happened...a company was given the freedom to build its airplanes where it was most advantageous for the company. This was an especially egregious power play by the unions in that Washington state (NOT a right-to-work state) didn't lose a single existing job because of the new plant being in SC. They just didn't get MORE jobs in WA.