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This documentary is written, directed and produced by Michael Moore and is about the social repercussions of capitalism as well as corporate and government issues that conflict with the basic needs of people and their families. Moore takes a liberal humanistic look at the consequences of General Motors closing down several auto plants in Flint, Michigan in the late 1980's and what can happen when a city is almost completely reliant on a single industry that shuts down or moves away. Moore also looks at the failure of Flint city officials to reverse the effects of the closures with trends like Auto World which had little effect (Moore, 1989).

The threat of outsourcing makes it increasingly difficult for unions to organize workers. Two million jobs in the more heavily unionized manufacturing jobs have been lost to China. Outsourcing causes unions to not only lose members, but makes it tougher for unions to organize new members.  In 57% of all union drives, employers threaten to move factories if workers unionize, a threat that is very real (Elk, 2010). Corporations have done more to hurt labor than labor has done to hurt itself. The most obvious threat that comes from outsourcing is the diminishing of jobs overall by transferring jobs from the U.S. to overseas.

Immigration and labor unions strongly impacted the American. Immigrants mostly impacted the American industrial worker negatively, because of more competition to earn jobs and also the immigrant’s willingness to work for lower wages. Labor unions were created in order to help the workers, but in the end, both created tension and depersonalized the work

The first and most important affect has been the decline in manufacturing employment due to the liberalization of trade and globalization. This has had a compounding effect on unions; factories or companies close or move elsewhere and lay off workers, thus diminishing union membership and reducing the collective negotiating power of the unions. Then, the factories and companies that remain in America can use the threat of a shutdown or relocation further reducing a union’s ability to negotiate with their employers. This has combined to cause a fragmentation of labor, undermining union’s ability to collectively bargain for wages and benefits. Deindustrialization has caused the United States to shift to a service economy adding the loss of traditional union occupations. At the same time, Republicans and the capitalist class launched political smear war against unions. They were effectively able to label unions with an anti-American and anti-prosperity stigma that greatly reduced their perception and popularity with the public at large (72-76). This has created a cycle, greatly weakening unions over time, which has lead to the deterioration in the quantity and quality of labor which have come together to diminish the quality of living for American middle and working class families which is most easily seen in rising income inequality as seen in the chart below (Nation 24).

The disintegration of America’s middle class has not gone unchallenged, however. As American workers have seen their once healthy wages and robust benefits slip from their grasp, many have clinged tightly to the protection of unions. Nodding to the well-documented victories of union members in the mid-1900s, unions in today’s flexible economy have often resorted to the tried-and-true methods of collective bargaining to defend themselves. But while these techniques proved successful in the Fordist economies of the mid-1900s, they have been largely ineffective in their attempts to protect workers in a post-Fordist economy that has made employers less dependent upon their workers. As a result, union participation rates in the United States have dropped from nearly one in three during the 1950s to a modern rate of only one in ten—with the U.S now donning one the lowest unionization rates in the world. Amidst Fordism’s collapse, American workers have found themselves questioning where they can find their footing in today’s economy.

As stated by Jansson (2014) “lack of medical services and are subject to legal and other forms of discrimination.” “Due to loss of finances, many families foreclosed on homes and land leaving many people homeless and left in poverty” (Shi, 2010). “By 1933, overall unemployment reaches 25 percent. African Americans out of all races were affected most by unemployment” (Shi, 2010). When Roosevelt passed the New Deal, federal government started taking a greater responsibility for preventing poverty and protecting others from reaching it (Shi, 2010). The New Deal’s most lasting impact was the Social Security act of 1935, protecting and reducing the poverty rate among the elderly’s population. However, the New Deal was not perfect in reducing and fixing the poverty rates in the United States. “In 1940, poverty was still at a high, but due to World War II, Americans were brought out of the Great Depression” (Shi, 2010). Many feared after the war hard times would come back. Nevertheless, times got better due to the “baby boom.” Manufacturing became big in trading with other countries such as the auto industry, military supplies, and inventions of technology such as televisions. The United States was finally able to make

The history of trade and industrial union has in the past year been very powerful and proficient when influencing members, employers and politicians. Recently, they have evolved to become less powerful and influential. This is because of the major relapse of the membership of unions and also the government disparaging trade unions in the area of workplace relations. Some governments marginalized those unions in order to significantly reduce the role played by unions by reorienting the relations among and between the employers and the employees.

Nafta is the first thing I’ll be talking about. Nafta is the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is basically what the name says, it’s free trade. The main purpose is to resolve problems, have completion, and protect the property rights. There are three places that are affected the U.S.A, Canada, and Mexico. They have been affected by this since October 7, 1992, so, a pretty long time. There negative things that come

Today Unions have a feud with outsourcing, the union employees are losing their once thought secure job to outsourcing. This is due to a company 's drive to increase profits, decisions of lower wage and job loss occurs. When a US company 's looks for other options of employment, it usually come down to outsourcing, subcontracting, and privatization, these options that companies take to increase profit. Union job security isn’t always so secure, often-union contracts discuss the effects outsourcing, but not make the decision to layoff an employee in favor of outsourcing. However this contract makes union workers bargain over their jobs, by lowering their wages and if they do not agree with the bargain then the companies are able to layoff employee, and replaces them with outsourcing. Unions are able to fight these companies for an agreement to be made, for instance, if a union as a whole decides to agree with these new terms of lower wages, the company is unable to let the employees go. Instead the unions will agree to terms with their jobs being taken away and sent overseas, unions often lobby to retaliate their termination.

Some economics have contended that globalization is making labor unions ability to demand the level of compensation that their workers deserve harder because of the threat of outsourcing and the competition from foreign production (Nahmias, 2013). In some studies, it was found that globalization has considerably decreased the effects of labor union strength on labor share and employment rates (Nahmias, 2013). Also, while there is some indication that globalization is diminishing the ability of labor unions to mandate greater employment protection, there is some signs that unions are working persistently to protect their members from unemployment through legislative regulation (Nahmias, 2013). Even though globalization has changed the factors of production, caused a decline in labor's bargaining power, and weakened the unions; labor unions have not surrendered and continue to fight for their members (Nahmias,

I believe a contributing factor as to why labor unions are on a steep decline in the US today is because the country’s manufacturing sector has become obsolete. Specifically speaking

Not coincidentally, this decline mirrors the ascendancy of neoliberal financial and political programs, which have, more often than not, been antagonistic tó labor unions. Só-called “free tradé” offers have shifted union-large manufacturing jobs from the united states to countriés with few-tó-no worker or environmental protections, while marketplace fundamentalist believe tanks and legal organizations have waged a more insidious marketing campaign to undermine and eventually eliminate collective bargaining and various other workers rights.

During Americas second industrial revolution, many people migrated to cities. There was too many people and not enough jobs for the number of people pouring in. Along with that, many jobs were being taken away by new technologies that were cheaper than hiring workers. Machines took the jobs of those who used to work menial tasks. As time went on in the history of labor unions, the purpose of it started to decline dramatically. Many places began to outsource jobs and many of companies moved to other countries. Union Memberships started to decline drastically. “Between 1975 and 1985, union membership fell by 5 million. In manufacturing, the unionized portion of the labor force dropped below 25 percent, while mining and construction, once labor’s flagship industries, were decimated. Only in the public sector did the unions hold their own. By the end of the 1980s, less than 17 percent of American workers were organized, half the proportion of the early 1950s”(History

While organized labor’s storied history demonstrates remarkable achievements, there has been a downside for the American economy. By way of example, the formerly dominant U.S. steel industry serves to remind of an time when poor management, global competition, and union excess were necessary causes of a dramatic and rapid industry decline.

Over the course of the century, labor movement has played a profound role in shaping how the Americans live and work in their daily lives. The influence the unions have has waxed and waned during a long and bloody struggle for power in the workplaces. The labor's movement's status has almost always been curious due to Americans' love-hate attitude toward an organized labor. Today, just like centuries ago, some of the citizens really believed that the unions are crucial to freedom, while other people feel just as strongly that they are at best and at worst at an obstacle to progress. Either way, these unions have grown a lot throughout the years. They have grown from being small and less powerful too. Unions are still pretty important in these