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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Knew that already - it's also common with furniture. Materials are all sent to China for assembly, then shipped back here for resale.
It's all about labor costs and associated regulations. Why pay some trade union guy $30 or $40 or $50 an hour (factoring in benefits, etc.) ....
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Sorry Jeff but I grew up in "the furniture capital of the world", watched it's demise as a manufacturing center, and your assessment is simply incorrect. Firstly, unions simply did NOT exist for the most part in local industries....like NONE
. Workers were paid by "piece work", very fair wages based upon production....avg worker made avg wages....good ones did VERY well, but worked hard for it every minute of the day. And they were skilled
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Unions were voted down EVERY single time around here....but greed still won out in the end by the huge corporate bean counters
