“Re: Sweating out the Words”

In response to Alali’s posts I definitely agree that the current operations of some large businesses without unions show us exactly why unions are needed. The unfortunate situation is that as soon as unions start to form, the companies are already seeking out locations that are more desperate and that will ban labor unions. So as soon as the workers of an oppressive employer begin to demand their rights as workers they loose their jobs and are in the same desperate situation as before the company offered them a job. Perhaps some people would say, “why don’t the desperate countries not let these corporation is if they are so bad?” Well I think it is because of two reasons. On the one hand there is sort of a prisoner’s dilemma situation in if all the developing countries decide to ban large corporations they will continually worry about a country abandoning this pact so no one will ban these corporations. The other side is for the country to develop from within but these countries do not have the capital to do this and up to this point there is no goodwill source of capital. People are not machines as some corporations seem to think but as long as there is this nasty problem of hypermobile personal capital and a line of increasingly more desperate countries there will continue to be this endless cycle.