JT,
Look at the recent news out of Carolina with regards to the new automobile plant being built there. The company, though they are not admitting it in public, specifically chose that location for two reasons. First it got incentives to come there from the state. Second, the state is right to work state. All of these companies which employ large numbers are setting up shop in areas like this. We have many examples here in Alabama. The UAW and its cohorts are fighting mad and spending millions of your dollars trying to organize these companies, and the employees are turning them down. For too many years the jobs went offs**** because the unions were forcing too much from the companies. I remember in the 1970's when you could buy a new car off the lot for $4000, and now that same vehicle will costs you $40,000. Exorbitant pensions, CEO costs, and employee benefits demanded by the unions drove those jobs offs****, despite what you may have been told down at the union hall. Yes, the CEOs are being paid too much, but much of their compensation comes from stock options and if the company does not do well those options are not worth much. In any case, what we see now is that the employees are learning, and they are telling the unions to go to hell. Why should they give money to the union bosses when they are not going to get any more than they are making now? Why give a big chunk of change to the local union hall who then sends it out of state to fund trips for the union bosses and other amentities, when that money can be kept in their own pockets.
Detroit is drying up. Home prices are rock bottom and the city is broke, and they only have one major group to blame. The socialist unions who put them under now want to the same for the southern state that have attracted what they once had, and squandered.