ohsojayadeva wrote:I'm simply baffled why, when seeing a large group of workers fighting for their own livelihood, and as one person said, to ensure that future workers are not subject to the same problems, some viewed by default that these workers have some kind of malevolent ulterior motive.
that's the entire point: i'm not seeing "a large group of workers fighting for their own livelihood"; i see a tiny group of labor agitators overseas, and a small group of diehard holdouts in Korea. and that's as represented by the union-generated propaganda. i'm also not seeing any documentation whatsoever for any of the claims other than union-generated propaganda; to begin with, actually showing that whatever Korean "court" (no pun intended) made the findings claimed in the press release at ohsojayadeva's last link would be a start. documenting and contextualizing the garbage "statistics" in that press release by, e.g., comparing the wage rates at the Cort plants to prevailing skilled/unskilled industrial wage rates in SK, contextualizing the $XXX amount in "profit" by giving the percentage of profit to income (because if you made $500 million but you only made 0.5% profit in an economy with 3% inflation, you lost money), showing whether the company was increasing or decreasing in profitability over the years the union lumps together as profitable, or noting that 2007--the year of the controversial plant closings--was also the year that saw the onset of the global recession and concomitant drop in demand for manufactured consumer goods such as, er, musical instruments, would be even better. and if you expect me to even begin to take your argument seriously, you have to address the counter-argument. in any case, i should hope that adults require more information for informed decision-making than this sort of transparently manipulative anecdotal BS.
