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Anti-Asian Union's
Aug 22, 2008 | 9:06 AM
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With the close of Beijing 2008 Summer Games only days away, the AFL-CIO has sent out a mailing to its
50,000 Union households in Ohio, Michigan & Pennsylvania taking a jab at John McCain saying, "Beijing 2008, American athletes are coming home but thanks to John McCain, 2.3 million American jobs aren't."

The AFL-CIO says, "...that the mailer has been targeted to neighborhoods and communities hardest hit by China trade, where factories have shut down and jobs have been outsourced."

It has been well established that by demonizing groups of people, it is much easier to influence public opinion and the AFL-CIO which has endorsed Barack Obama, is playing on the protectionist theme, as the closing of the Beijing 2008 Summer Games are just around the corner.

In 1982 the UAW circulated a confidential memo (at pg. 169) realizing the constant drum beat of protectionism Buy American theme potentially would contribute to anti-Asian racism---the AFL-CIO followed their union brethren in opposing free trade and instead focused on blaming other Americans, principally Asians, for the losses of union jobs, instead of the own anti-competitiveness, wage and benefit inflation, including other market forces which drove consumers to purchase less expensive, more fuel efficient automobiles and other consumer goods from different markets.

Being unable to compete in a global economy, the American Unions have learned nothing during the last two decades and continue to espouse contempt, bigotry and anti-Asian prejudices as a means to escape their own dismal failings.
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mystere read my blog view my photos
Aug 23, 2008 | 4:12 AM

They are from the Michael Moore school of business: be fat, lazy, sit around doing nothing, and whine about being broke! That is what that fat lazy carcass did in the 80s.
CristyLi read my blog view my photos
Aug 25, 2008 | 2:15 AM

Exactly---Xiexie (Thank You)
wildgift read my blog
Aug 25, 2008 | 4:10 PM

That memo undermines what you're saying. The unions were telling their people to be aware that racism from members could emerge, and that it should be stopped.

What happened in the 80s was a rise of resentment against Japan, and it wasn't the unions leading the charge. It was happening at the community level, where (like today) people were buying smaller cars, and auto companies were simultaneously shutting their plants here, and opening factories in Mexico and Brazil, and also moving production overseas to their foreign markets.

Eventually, some Japanese companies opened plants here, but it was due, in large part, to the fact that we have these quotas against imports. To get around this protectionism, the companies open factories here, so some "foreign" cars are produced domestically.

Protectionism has worked to retain some jobs. "Buy American" nationalism, in contrast, has failed.

What unions back then failed to do was develop relationships with unions in Japan, to work together. This time around, some unions have started to build bridges with unions in China, so organizations on both sides of the Pacific can learn from each other.

Also, the AFL-CIO letter should point out that it's not just "outsourcing" to Chinese companies, but wholesale movement of factories to China (the factory is packed in crates and shipped) that is the real tragedy of this Wal-Mart driven model for profit.
This_Aint_Your_Land read my blog view my photos
Aug 25, 2008 | 7:22 PM

The AFL-CIO says, "...that the mailer has been targeted to neighborhoods and communities hardest hit by China trade, where factories have shut down and jobs have been outsourced

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The Socialist liberal unions should be targeting the REAL SOURCE of America's economic destruction, namely "insourcing" of millions of illegal alien Mexicans that has driven us into the third world.

Insourcing gets us cheap labor, but we spend 1000 times what we save by supporting the leeches that suck our society dry.
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CristyLi

Born in Ohio and attended Ohio State University, married to a native from China in 2002 and has no children. I write a politically conservative, pro-Taiwan, pro-Israel column and post many of my articles in my Blogs. I read all of my e-mail but due to the volume I may not be able to reply to each one.

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