Why Isn’t There A Massive Protest By The U.s Labor Force Against Corporations Sending Jobs Overseas?

1. Le Socialiste Says

   I’m all for organizing American labor, but not against the Chinese working-class. It’s not their fault our companies and corporations chose to ship our jobs overseas.
   As to why there haven’t been any large protests…it’s mostly due to the lack of any strong pro-worker, pro-labor parties/organizations. Those that do exist either 1) do nothing in the way of bringing real change, or 2) have long been co-opted into the corporate/political system. One of the problems we have is the open hostility many Americans have against such labor mobilizations (we still can’t stand unions); you can thank decades of propaganda for that. It’s basically the result of competitiveness (instead of cooperation) and distrust (instead of unity) that ultimately keeps the U.S. labor force/working-class from speaking with one voice. Until we begin to see our individual struggles as the struggles of every other working man and woman, we can’t begin to demand our jobs back.

2. william k Says

   I think I’ll just throw in a Bertrand Russell quote here, “Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.”
   I put a link which has most of his more interesting quotes. Mind you he was writing all this in the 1930′s.

3. SOROS Says

   Business’s ignore the demand side of equation and the effects of a decreasing availability of cheap oil at their perrel mein herr.
   Ms Muffinsaplenty – Get me my General Electric subsidiary in Beijing, with the increase in shipping costs due to the high cost of fuel – They need to fire those old farts making 25 cents an hour and get me more 8 year olds to man the whirlygig death machine – they work for pennies!

4. guillermo o Says

   what can joe do you have joe that have no money, then you have sam that has all the money sam makes the rules joe has to live by it. it sucks to be little joe. their a race in the world today to be the richest and joe is not included. (yes it true sarcasm)

5. ILS31 Says

   Are you willing to pay $1800.00 for you next iphone? That’s what it would cost if assembled in the United STates with Union workers. Nothing is as black and white as you would like to think.

6. Chewy Ivan 2 Says

   Because too many American workers have been duped into believing that allowing corporations to exploit them is all part of free market capitalism.

7. creolekn Says

   not happening..didn’t u lot want globalization? soon u lot will have to go to china for bread. look around you how many chinese product u have in your own house..surprise surprise ,

8. Freddie Vincent Says

   its time their was a massive protest! things are not getting better as far as jobs go!

9. thegubmi Says

   The average Joe doesn’t want to have to take out a second mortgage to pay for a new TV set.
   It’s that simple, no outsourcing, stuff will be WAY WAY more expensive. People want stuff.
   Edit: You need to move back to the world of reality. Businesses mostly already operate on the smallest profit margin they can, just to survive. Start tacking on a huge wage increase, and they all go out of business. Why do you think you can buy a computer for $400, or a 55 inch flat screen for $600, or a PS3 for $300, or a vacuum cleaner for $100, or almost anything else you have? Because they’re made in places where labor is much, much cheaper than in the US. If you want to go back to the days when computers cost $5000, a 24 inch TV cost $900, and a vacuum cleaner ran a cool grand, and your salary was running about $500 a week, go for it. I remember paying $400 for the same CD player you can buy now for $50. I remember paying $500 for a VHS machine. Buying stuff like that was a BIG BIG deal, now it’s nothing. You’re obviously too young to know anything like that.

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