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I am not going to ask the nature of the US delegation you towed but I am betting you a case of Heineken that there were, among them, members of the AFL-CIO and other assorted unions' people among the visitors.
Those are concerned with their cushy jobs and don't want people to compete with them. Pretty soon they want an OSHA in China and red tape all over the place.
Of course they will tell that they are only concerned with the workers, but we know they just want to slow down the people that are exporting their way out of poverty.
Back in the seventies, when Brazil weas growing real fast, AFL-CIO, the Swede and the German Unions were concerned about working conditions in Brazil and started visiting Brazil and inviting unions people to Sweden and Germany. Pretty soon the Brazilians -instead of working hard for their own interest-started work militancy.
Lula, Brazil's president today was the leader of those (metal workers) working class people .
As a result of the success of their militancy, auto-electrical-mechanical industry defected Sao Paulo -where it always been- and left for other places.
Curitiba -where I hang my hat once in a while- has received: Nissan/Renault, Audi/VW and a couple of other auto factories plus a whole lot of car-parts makers, that gravitates around auto industry, running away from unionized workers. This emptied the metal workers grip on industry. They were left behind without jobs. Now the modern factories that are more productive than the old in Sao Paulo are spread across the country. The region where they were became a mini-rust belt.
Luckily, they moved within Brazil. In other places they moved out the country. Just have a look to Europe.
This type of people like this US delegation going there doesn't augur well for the Chinese.
Tell the Chinese: BEWARE OF PEOPLE WITH INTENTIONS. Mainly if they carry bibles!!! |
