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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy should it be easy for corporations to move?
Why should a corporation be allowed to move its factories wherever it wants? Take General Electric, who is moving its Ford Edward, New York production to (ironically) Clearwater, Florida.
UE is United Electric Workers. Townsend has a really good point here. Why should it be easy for corporations to move? You can talk about property rights, but why should the property rights of corporations supercede the property rights of homeowners, shopkeepers, small businesses, and others negatively affected by captial mobility? After turning the area into a Superfund site, GE is outta there, leaving another New York community decimated? Why should governments and people allow corporations to do this? These issues are almost never critically examined. The right of corporate mobility and the race to the bottom is seen as an obvious right. But it shouldnt be. As Ive said before, the only way to stop corporate mobility from destroying communities is to create standardized regulations, wages, and working conditions across states and nations. Only then will corporations be unable to play state against state, nation against nation, worker against worker, all in the service of concentrating wealth at the tippy top of society.
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/10/siting-factories
Gene Elk, secretary of the UE-GE Conference Board, told the assembled workers and supporters that GEs response to the unions request for information was to call it burdensome. What the union got, Elk said, was 15 sheets of paper and we had to sign an agreement pledging that we wouldnt divulge much of that information to the public.
Why shouldnt it be burdensome for a powerful, profitable corporation like GE to close a plant? I asked UE Political Director Chris Townsend.
It shouldnt be easy to close a plant, said Townsend, or it shouldnt be this easy to close this plant. The General Electric corporation has been shown every imaginable considerationby the taxpayers, by the state government, by the federal government, by this community, by the environmental regulators, everyone.
UE is United Electric Workers. Townsend has a really good point here. Why should it be easy for corporations to move? You can talk about property rights, but why should the property rights of corporations supercede the property rights of homeowners, shopkeepers, small businesses, and others negatively affected by captial mobility? After turning the area into a Superfund site, GE is outta there, leaving another New York community decimated? Why should governments and people allow corporations to do this? These issues are almost never critically examined. The right of corporate mobility and the race to the bottom is seen as an obvious right. But it shouldnt be. As Ive said before, the only way to stop corporate mobility from destroying communities is to create standardized regulations, wages, and working conditions across states and nations. Only then will corporations be unable to play state against state, nation against nation, worker against worker, all in the service of concentrating wealth at the tippy top of society.
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/10/siting-factories
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Why should it be easy for corporations to move? (Original Post)
phantom power
Oct 2013
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Because of a system set up by John D. Rockefeller and a gang of political cronies to pit each state
Egalitarian Thug
Oct 2013
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Joel thakkar
(363 posts)1. ofcourse they will move...
Who wants to pay a unionized worker a living wage with good health insurance in New York when they can get $8 per hour un-unionized worker who don't demand health insurance?
Not to forgot that Florida also has low corporate tax than New York and Florida local repubs politicians will even give more subsidies on property and corporate tax to make the deal more sugary.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)2. Because of a system set up by John D. Rockefeller and a gang of political cronies to pit each state
against all the others to "compete" for the privilege of hosting these parasites.
msongs
(67,420 posts)3. when one owns the elected government one can pretty much do what one wants nt