Where did the list cite "union workers", Dixie? Point it out.
Point out your point you were trying to interject into the other point of the other conversation? I'm confused!!
Aren't union workers only around 12% of the total workforce?
That's what Tom says. But as I pointed out, and you've not refuted, the unions drive labor cost across the board. Whenever unions increase pay, the non-unions have to follow suit, or risk losing their workers or turning union. So it doesn't matter that it's a mere 12%, that's enough to influence the cost of labor everywhere.
Did "unions" cause the flight of the textile industry from the Deep South to Asia?
Well yeah, kind of, they did. But the textile industry, let's face it... there are some jobs it's just better for us to let someone else do. Textiles is one of them. Have you ever seen the inside of a garment factory? Do you know what it's like to work standing up on a concrete floor all day, or operating a sewing machine? If we could afford to make textiles and pay people union wages, it would be different, but that's not the case. Consumers won't pay $200 for a pair of blue jeans, and that is what they would have to cost, to pay union workers to make them in the US.
The textile industry moved out of the south when the unions moved in. Fuller Callaway was one of the last big textile producers in the south. Through the 40s, 50s, and 60s, he built an empire, Callaway Mills, which consisted of dozens of "mill villages" he personally built... yes, he built entire communities, houses, stores, recreational facilities, infirmaries, etc. for the people he hired to work in his mills. They made a decent wage for the time, not exceptional, but adequate... and they had all these perks afforded to mill villagers. In the 70s, the northern textile unions made a huge push to unionize the south, and the result was... Callaway and the few others who remained, pulled up stakes and called it a day. Now, old Fuller, lived out the rest of his days at his mansion, with everything he wanted. He even donated his well-established recreation centers to the city and his softball/baseball/soccer complexes, to the college. The jobs, however, were GONE... killed by the unions.