The new place to offshore jobs and pay poverty wages? Virginia

[Bluebear]

Where does Swedish furniture company Ikea build a plant when it wants to offshore work in order to pay poverty wages, bust unions, force mandatory overtime, and generally slave-drive their workers?

Where else – Virginia.

In a report in the LA Times, Bill Street, a union organizer in Danville, Virginia, offers a choice quote:

“It’s ironic that Ikea looks on the U.S. and Danville the way that most people in the U.S. look at Mexico.”

In other words, the Southern, right-to-work states, where paying single-digit hourly wage rates is the norm, is the new destination for European firms looking to offshore jobs.

http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2011/04/14/news/politics/doc4da7366fb5b23349111658.txt