Quote Originally Posted by maladroit
labour unions drive up the cost of labour, but even without unions, american labour could not compete with foreign sweatshop labour
That is a pretty big claim. Productivity trumps low cost labor every time. Outsourcing should only exist when it is unprofitable to produce. An examle would be paying equal to / more than minimum wage to a set of workers who can produce y amount of goods in x given time when a foreign factory can produce the same amount in the same period of time. It only hurts consumers to keep this hypothetical factory flowing...

why are you asking abourt toyota? toyota doesn't operate sweatshops and the average wage in japan is the highest of all asian countries, and higher than some western countries

i hope that was worth the wait!
Toyota is a non union employer. Thats not the point, why does Toyota have US factories when they can get lower labor input elesewere???