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Posted: Jul 31, 2017

I think we can all agree we have been duped by all our politicians at every level.

I'm willing to bet most everyone knows someone who works construction who has been out of work at some poiint while foreign auto companies are bringing in construction workers from other countries to build auto plants. This is a disgrace to say the least!

This has been going on for decades so includes both sides of the aisle and probaby in between. These factories are creating jobs for auto workers but why weren't/aren't they required to use US workers to build them?

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It's probably a union thing - sm

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From your linked article:
"I'm angry. Angry," said Daniel Travancic, who has worked for the Local 104 sheet metal workers union out of San Jose, California for more than a decade.

"There's lots of guys out there still looking for work in the United States," he said. "And now we have how many thousands and thousands of East European workers working here, and they're abused, too? Who lets this happen?"

My question is what would it cost to hire unionized American workers vs. hiring, housing, and feeding non-unionized foreigners?

CBS doesn't mention that and probably won't in their documentary. That would seem to be a critical piece of the puzzle.

Another question, should the auto companies be forced by the government to use US workers to build their factories?

We will continue to be duped until we expect and demand the media report on all sides of an issue, especially the side they are politically opposed to reporting.

Seriously! So the other side of the story - might be that companies

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should be allowed to pay us say $50 a week to build buildings so they don't have to bring in foreigners to do the work while their CEOs make mega-million dollar salaries and bonuses.

Anything to keep the wealthy wealthy and the people in this country in the welfare lines. Let's not forget that it is people with this thinking that criticize people on welfare and say they should be out there working yet can't get jobs because we have to prop up those billionaires.

Your question: "Another question, should the auto companies be forced by the government to use US workers to build their factories?" My answer is damn right they should if they're building them in this country. If they don't want to pay union wages, there are many companies that aren't union that could be used since many of the unions have been broken anyway.

And if they decline to build factories in the US? - What then? sm

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I'm pretty sure I know how this will play out. (You've already shown yourself to be slightly hyperbolic with your "$50 a week" comment.)

We've already seen this movie. It's called the past 8 years. I'm sure you remember:
1. The great press Obama got by declaring increased corporate regulation and more fairness for workers.
2. Obama criticizing the "greedy corporations" sitting on trillions of dollars and not investing in America.

Do you think those two things are unrelated?

Yea, that was the excuse when Obama was - in office. This was going

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on before Obama was in office. There was always some excuse for the corporations to take jobs overseas, not pair fair wages, etc. You need to go back a lot further than Obama to answer the questions but the simple answer is corporate greed.

Just quoting from what I saw in media reporting - As for what we see now... sm

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Trump announces he's cut "job-killing regulations" Obama put in place.

The MSM (like CBS) announces that factories are being built in the US with foreign labor.

In comparison, I don't recall any stories on who was building Solyndra's new factory, in 2009 or 2010. Before they went defunct in 2011.

Still, I tend to wonder how much of the article itself is true. Some key quotes:

"...foreign workers being used to build sections of U.S. auto plants." Not the entire plant?

"Our investigation led us to an apartment complex in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where it appeared workers from Slovenia and Croatia were being housed by their employer." Appeared?

Work sites are listed as being in Alabama and Spartanburg, South Carolina. But the out of work union steelworker they quoted is from San Jose, California. Why didn't they interview angry, out of work, construction workers in Alabama and South Carolina?

Fair enough. I will do more research - It is not the first time I

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I have heard of such goings on, bringing in foreign workers to do work instead of hiring Americans. But, you do bring up some valid points on this particular story.

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