The UAW’s last stand

Bernie Wodall, Ben Klayman and Jan Schwartz Detroit/Hamburg Reuters 12/29/2011

The United Auto Workers union is staking its future on the kind of struggle it hasn’t waged since the 1930s: a massive drive to organize hostile factories.

This time, the target is foreign car makers, whose workers have rebuffed the union repeatedly. Specifically, Reuters has […]

Gibson CEO Says Feds Told Him Problems Would ‘Go Away’ if Labor Was Outsourced to Madagascar

Jonathon M. Seidl The Blaze 9/1/2011

The tale of the Gibson guitar raid — the one focused on the legendary guitar maker’s alleged importation and use of illegal wood — has taken an odd turn. Now CEO Henry Juszkiewicz is claiming the Feds told him that some of his problems “would go away” if the […]

The Clueless Senator from Vermont

John Stossel Fox Business 3/10/2011

Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, was so outraged that trinkets made at the Smithsonian are not manufactured in the United States that he wrote to the museum demanding it sell products made in the USA.

“That is pretty pathetic!” said the Senator. “I was not aware that the collapse of our […]

Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, talks manufacturing and education with Peter Schiff

23 February 2011

This recording was posted on Peter Schiff’s Facebook page today and it is a really exceptional discussion, especially if you are a business owner, an educator, or a parent of a student.

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The Mercury Threat — Again

From Minamata to CFL lightbulbs, the arrogance and indifference of politicians, the bullheadedness of special interests expose innocents to te dangers of mercury

J. R. Dunn American Thinker 1/23/2011

…No one had even seen pictures like this. [W. Eugene] Smith‘s photos contained echoes of the Holocaust, of the effects of plague and starvation. It was […]

Emerson Electric Votes With Its Feet, Saying The Goverment Is Destoying American Manufacturing

By Richard McCormack Manufacturing News Volume 16, No. 19 November 17, 2009

One of the country’s most important industrial companies says the United States is not a good place to manufacture and it will continue moving its assets offshore.

The federal government is “doing everything in [its] manpower [and] capability to destroy U.S. manufacturing,” […]

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