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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 1068628" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>I "liked" what you wrote because I thought it was clever, and in a way you are right...the South <em>is </em>the new China. But only in the sense that we increasingly accepting lower wages using the excuse that it's a "global economy". Car manufacturers who sell vehicles in China are already there, especially GM. </p><p></p><p>It's a bad comparison because China is a Communist/Quasi-Capitalist security state that operates very differnently from the US. There are no worker or environmental protections to speak-of, and although China has a growing middle-class, it's very small. Most Chinese are dirt-poor and work for very low wages in terrible conditions.</p><p></p><p>"Striving for the top" means middle-class wages and workers who have some means of negotiating with their employers. With RTW, it's the employer's way or the highway, just like at FedEx, a prototype for RTW. We have no means of bargaining for a better deal with FedEx..it's take it or leave it, and they have all the power, including the power to kill any union efforts.</p><p></p><p>I love the idiots who say that RTW doesn't make unionizing any more difficult.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 1068628, member: 12508"] I "liked" what you wrote because I thought it was clever, and in a way you are right...the South [I]is [/I]the new China. But only in the sense that we increasingly accepting lower wages using the excuse that it's a "global economy". Car manufacturers who sell vehicles in China are already there, especially GM. It's a bad comparison because China is a Communist/Quasi-Capitalist security state that operates very differnently from the US. There are no worker or environmental protections to speak-of, and although China has a growing middle-class, it's very small. Most Chinese are dirt-poor and work for very low wages in terrible conditions. "Striving for the top" means middle-class wages and workers who have some means of negotiating with their employers. With RTW, it's the employer's way or the highway, just like at FedEx, a prototype for RTW. We have no means of bargaining for a better deal with FedEx..it's take it or leave it, and they have all the power, including the power to kill any union efforts. I love the idiots who say that RTW doesn't make unionizing any more difficult. [/QUOTE]
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