Do you believe investors will keep investing in the U.S. if you keep trying to strong arm them?
What happened to most Americans work for small local business?
It's a big world out there, look what unions did to the U.S. in recent history, look back from the 20s until now, no more made in USA. There are many countries like France that are moving away from socialist policies after seeing the ill effects, and investors are flocking to them leaving the U.S..
Lies, lies, and damned lies. Yes - investors will continue to invest in the US because there exists this thing called a market. 330 million people wanting and needing food, clothing, shelter, and lots and lots of stuff to make it their own. Does Germany, Sweden, Iceland, Norway all other developed countries lack investments? No.
There's no more made in USA because unlike other countries, the USA allows the free import of goods and allows services rendered from other countries like Microsoft customer service and your cable companies customer service to be outsourced with no penalties. Other countries don't allow that.
When we have trade and corporate policies and tax laws that allow corporations to make greater profits, of course they take advantage of it - that does not mean that without those advantages that corporations will shun the USA and take their ball and go elsewhere. McDonalds pays an employee $16.85 an hour in Germany and must provide 4 weeks paid vacation and paid sick time and paid personal days and a YEAR paid maternity leave and the cost of a food item is only slightly higher than it is in the USA, and yet McDonalds still thrives there, and is profitable. Of course they're lobbying the government to allow lower wages, less time off, and for lower food standards, it's a corporation looking to increase profits. But not being successful in getting anything they want is not going to dissuade them from continuing to make what profits they can. Not to mention that a German corporation must have on it's board of directors more than 1/2 actually typical employees of that corporations. Not a board made up of only millionaire investors and friends and relatives in the top 1%. Because of this, when the financial crisis of 2008 lead German car companies to lower wages across the board and give more time off to workers rather than shut down entire factories and let the workers at the bottom suffer the fallout on their own.
You know... the "Christian" thing to do.
Capital is easy to move, easier than it is for workers.
It is, but the market that is 330 million isn't moving anywhere. You're claims amount to "If we don't let corporations exploit us to their heart's content and let them exist tax-free they'll leave." No, they won't. Where are they going to go to, when they're anywhere they want to be now?
I support bettering workers, I support bettering everyone, I don't believe your tact is effective though.
No. Actually you don't. You are pushing the concept that if we don't allow Walmart to increase earnings 1.2 billion through the Covid crisis (thus far) that if laws and regulations and union and worker friendly policies such as living wages and medical care and workplace rules that require their human worker bees to be treated like people with lives and families and pets and homes and needs and desires that the current corporate policies do not currently recognize, that Walmart will shutter and go take their business to some other country. And that is a lie. Walmart knows their business model does not work in foreign countries when they're required to up their standards. Even Target failed in Canada. A carpeted clean Walmart fooled nobody there. 3rd world foreign made junk is still 3rd world foreign made junk.
Americans still fail to grasp the concept of value for the most part, and trend towards quantity over quality. When it comes to things that really matter - as evidenced in many threads right here about how Klein linesmans aren't worth it anymore since production was moved to China or Mexico - or Klein screwdrivers are failing left and right and they're simply profiting from their name and it's past reputation for quality.
Just look for better employers or better yet work for yourself, I live in the rust belt that had a hay day up until about the late 50s with unions, I worked through the IBEW. My opinion, the labor unions in the U.S. are a burden and more to the workers than investors, slowing progress, the better jobs around here are non-union hands down, unions are pretty much dead around here now and no-one is looking back.
Wonderful. Just look for better employers because I'm sure that contractor F isn't competing with contractors A,B,C,D, and E who are all running the same business model of "F the employees, the winner is the guy with the lowest paid workers and the highest billable hours??? " And the problem is just that everyone hasn't yet discovered that the unicorns and rainbows are all over there under contractor F's roof???
If you happen to be in a particularly depressed area then it's likely that economic forces are all in disarray in which case you gotta do what you gotta do - that doesn't mean that unions are the cause or the solution or even play into the issue. But you can't tell me unions don't have a positive impact in the grand scheme of things when nonunion electrician workers who are the top paid guys in their shops and don't make 1/2 what a union Journeyman makes and also have no medical benefits, fringes, or a pension.
I don't believe in banning unions, if you want to be union I believe you should be able to, and the employer be allowed to not agree to a labor agreement, but I don't think they work long term.
The choice to have union representation is the employees. Not the employer's.