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Old 10-19-2011, 01:11 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Bigstan View Post
As long as we have unions we will lose manufacturing jobs to Asia / S. America / etc... , that is hardly anything new, get used to it. If we keep losing the technology jobs to Asia / India then we really have to worry.
We cannot survive long term on service and govt subsidized industires (defense, teachers, CCC type construction) alone. What to do?
Only 11.9 % of the US workforce is a member of a union.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

None of the Lowe's in question had union employees.
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