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What do you see as the deeper strategy of those dark actors doing the manipulating?
There are plenty of people who would like to see unions reduced to insignificance or eliminated. Cheap overseas labor is nice, but shipping costs cut into profits, particularly when oil prices go crazy. Those overseas wages won't stay low forever when the standard of living is going up in the countries where the work is being sent. It might be nicer to have cheap labor here in the U.S., but unions often stand in the way.