Stop sending our jobs to other countries so corporations can increase their profits

Freightliner has announced that the company will be constructing a new plant in Saltillo, Mexico; this plant will cost $300 million to build. The plant will be 1 million square foot and will produce Freightliner and Sterling brand trucks. The facility will also employee about 1,600 people. This is the second plant to be constructed in Mexico for the Freightliner Company.
As Freightliner made the announcement of their new plant in Mexico, Freightliner announced to their union personal at their Swan Island facility of the impending major layoff coming in the spring. The numbers slated for the layoff were from 500 to 800 union people.
The news is not good for union people in the freightliner company, as many as 4,000 production and related workers could be laid off company wide this year.
The downsizing of freightliner has had detrimental affects on many related workers in Oregon from the Machinist Union, Painters, Teamsters, Service Employees to name a few.
Although Freightliner has issued a pres release saying that the scheduled layoffs has nothing to do with the expansion in Mexico. They refer that the layoffs are due to the decline in the demand for trucks and the new emission standards, Adding that the new emission standards are adding a price increase to the new trucks of about $10,000.00 per truck. The new emission standards are in place to cut the emissions of diesel fueled trucks.
It is simple freightliner is moving to Mexico because they can build trucks cheaper in Mexico.
Freightliner has had a RECORD PROFIT of $705 million in its third quarter and up from $449 million a year earlier.
Corporate America has struck again proving that greed is their first name, In my opinion the United States needs to implement the tariff tax on corporations that move out side of the United States and wishes to send finished products back into this country. As America loses more good quality, good paying jobs we are surely on the slippery sloop of becoming a third world country our self. As American's we need to voice our outrage on the losses of American jobs to Mexico and other improvised countries.
I am afraid that we have let corporate America become the powerful giants that they are, while we have been sitting back enjoying our good wages we have allowed corporate to slowly chisel away our wages and benefits, we have allowed corporations to take advantage of our fellow workers in America, instead of fighting for other workers rights we have allowed Corporate America to demonize the unions through propaganda, to the point that workers across America actually believe that unions are bad, that unions do not care for its members.
Coming from a union family, I know and understand why unions are good and why unions are needed. My Grandpa started one of the first unions for the loggers in this area, after his return from WWI. Their first union victory was to have a wood stove in the bunkhouse at camp to help dry their clothes, the next victory was to have another wood stove at the other end of the room. Small, but important victories it was the beginning for loggers to be treated fair by the timber barons. As time went on more victories were won. If the companies were not forced to provide a stove, the workers would not have had one, so yes unions are as important today as they were nearly a hundred years ago. The movement of corporations to outside the United States is motivated by greed and the ability to take advantage of workers, in countries where workers have no rights and are a dispensable commodity.
We have allowed our elected officials to become corporate henchmen, instead of voting the bums out, when their loyalty is to corporations, we have allowed the politicians of this country to become our elected enemy of the working men and women of America.
Until the workers of America along with elected officials join forces and puts a stop to corporations leaving this country, where there are no worker rights, no pollution controls, our way of life that we are accustomed to will not be there for our children.