Ya know, it is extremely, in fact staggeringly
stupid to blame unions for what their employers
Stupid is thinking that unions employ people.chose to do. But it's a very conservative thing to do, in that the people responsible cannot possibly be held responsible by a conservative.
Strange as a conservative I hold people responsible for what they do all the time.
Non competitive industries can pass on any cost increase to customers with no loss to themselves rather than having to raise productivity. So it's easier to just give out fat contracts. If company A has a higher cost than company B, company B will raise it's prices enough to protect company A.
Wow your grasp of business is just mind blowing.
That's 50 years of the history of the steel and auto industries in a nutshell.
Yeah because the auto industry has no competition what so ever and the Japanese and Canadian steel industry raised their prices to make sure the US steel industry was protected.
So when Japan reached the point of being competitive, they didn't do so because of cheaper labor, they did so because their factories were decades newer and each worker produced a superior product for less hours worked per car or ton produced.
And there were no union legacy costs or "job banks". Do you know what a "job bank" is?
And Japan
kept investing! While the American companies demanded protectionism,
Demanded? How exactly? Japan continued to improve, but the American companies refused to invest in modern mills and factories.
Yup stupid business men never improved anything or built new plants. So the Japanese kept getting better while the Americans never tried to get better.
Except they stayed on par with the Japanese.
So when talking about responsibility;
Who made the decisions that caused the problem? Not a single one was made by unions
