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Work harder than the other guys in my union? when i have an incentive to work harder. >> well, if you dont like the union you can vote to reject their contract, but to even decertify the union, get rid of it. you can also work for a different employer. you have lots of choices. any worker and employer, for example, they have requirements. they often require you to wear a particular uniforms or they can monitor your keystrokes on a computer. when you work for an employer, there are obligations th...

Work harder than the other guys in my union? when i have an incentive to work harder. >> well, if you dont like the union you can vote to reject their contract, but to even decertify the union, get rid of it. you can also work for a different employer. you have lots of choices. any worker and employer, for example, they have requirements. they often require you to wear a particular uniforms or they can monitor your keystrokes on a computer. when you work for an employer, there are obligations th...

Of us do, and you can buy a pair of shorts for $5. and their slogan is low prices. why are they low prices? because these people get paid nothing. >> but will american consumers care? >> disney has now stopped getting their stuff from there. the eu is threatening sanctions, kand davp is, canada is, too. do you know how much theyre paid? they get paid $37 a month. the pope yesterday called that slave labor. >> sweat shops have been going on for quite a while. whats fascinating to see is whether o...

China. they dont spend it in america. they create jobs in china. they dont create jobs here. i think youre entitled to ask what are we doing here? the answer is, the president, the administration and gm are in a box, a box of their own making. china is their fastest growing market. theyve got to service that market with low priced products. thats what theyve got to do. they cannot produce cars, build a new factory in america. theyre not allowed to go and build in a nonunion state. if they build ...

Collective bargaining is the use to have to bargain of the rules, the work rules. since these big rowboat -- big it will books. rules about the room temperature and the paint color in the teachers lounge. >> there were contracts has said what color the teachers lounge had to be. they actually have ranges in the contract of the room temperature for classrooms. these are the sorts of things that they would negotiate over, and it would negotiate for weeks and months over these sorts of things. to m...

Perfect point. here you have -- they did not switch companies. a state with the teachers union preferred company, but because they have competition, suddenly the job the rates. >> the other thing the changed without having to deal with collective bargaining is the use to have to bargain of the rules, the work rules. since these big rowboat -- big it will books. rules about the room temperature and the paint color in the teachers lounge. >> there were contracts has said what color the teachers lo...

Violations also loses the larger point for the vast majority of workers in chinese factories arent underage and wont be disfigured in a gruesome visible way. no, for them the work is grinding and endless with no work rules or autonomy that might give respite. as one foxconn worker said women work like men and men work like animals. in the version of the monologue that i saw in washington, d.c. he had an extended riff that zeroed in on this point. he invited the audience to see what it would feel...

The american workforce is changing. union membership has dropped by 400,000 americans last year. that is the lowest levels weve seen in almost a century. stuart varney, anchor of "varney & company", fox business network. good morning to you, stuart. what is behind this number? >> i will give four factors. number one, sharp cuts in government employment. government employees are generally unionized. those union jobs are gone. number two, they are pricing themselves out. union members are pricing ...

Word, cripple the economy. the ports in this country are the backbone of our trade, both export and imports and ive read estimates of $100 billion or more comes in and out. so it cook devastating, and reverberate throughout the economy. retailers, wholesalers. food distributors, everybody would be affected by the strike if it goes forward. >> exactly what do the unions want and what is management willing to do? how far apart are the two groups? >> its interesting. theyre not really -- normally i...

Big picture ideas. isnt just interested in wages and work rules. interested in the welfare of middle class people. you have a great union there. is this right to work thing really going to hurt your union and kill the esprit de corps of the union workers? why would this hurt them? >> i dont think it will in the uaw. we have great membership loyalty. the problem is its just the first step. we have watched in this state right wing legislatures pass laws to take away the collective bargaining right...