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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 lounge had to be. they actually have ranges in the contract of the room temperature for classrooms. ...

Violations also loses the larger point for the vast majority of workers in chinese factories aren't underage and won't 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 like to stand in one place for hours and hours and hours at a time with few if any breaks and do ...

The american workforce is changing. union membership has dropped by 400,000 americans last year. that is the lowest levels we've 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 themselves out of government work at the state level. states are insolvent in some cases. they can'...

Word, cripple the economy. the ports in this country are the backbone of our trade, both export and imports and i've 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? >> it's interesting. they're not really -- normally in a wage dispute with the union,ettes it's about wages and benefits but in this case it's not. wh...

Big picture ideas. isn't 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 don't think it will in the uaw. we have great membership loyalty. the problem is it's just the first step. we have watched in this state right wing legislatures pass laws to take away the collective bargaining rights from public sector employees on health care and pensions. they did a petty vindictive law that ...