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https://ourfuture.org/20170913/walker-and-trumps-foxconn-deal-may-be-worst-in-american-history?utm_source=progressive_breakfast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pbreak
Now that Wisconsin is thoroughly softened up by repeated defeats for
labor, several years of successful anti-worker moves, in comes their
ultra-right-wing Governor Scott Walker arm-in-arm with Trump and
Foxconn, the Taiwanese company which brought China mass suicides and
long, unhealthy, onerous working conditions. Foxconn relocates to
Wisconsin because they're being offered a $3 billion subsidy to relocate
to that state that they couldn't refuse, paid for by Wisconsin
taxpayers, along with the inevitable repatriation of profits drained
from Wisconsin inhabitants, not even due to be circulated in their own
area but to the coffers of the stockholders of this giant predatory
foreign corporation. That plus a leg up on the race to the bottom for
another segment of US workers due to be underpaid and overworked, who
were once schooled to expect a race to the top and now will be that much
closer to their counterparts in China on wages and working conditions.
It's well to keep in mind, though, that we are in a sustained economic
slump with an increasingly debt-encumbered and insecure working class
and inexorable increase in automation across the spectrum as capital
scrambles for diminishing market share - and that following the 1929
crash, joblessness, homelessness and Hoovervilles, it took a period of
years before the workers managed to organize and fight back. We can work
towards that and hope, but this time around for nothing less than a
united global fight-back. That will take in this country disillusionment
with the prospect of a working class divided from and opposed to foreign
workers and sharing in the rip-off from their cheaper labor. Anything
short of that, with the mobility and power of concentrated capital
increasing constantly and spreading globally, is pyrrhic.
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