Workers said their unions could not negotiate with the new industrial giants.
VOA: special.2010.06.03
Ohio's most crippling handicap may be that its politicians -- and thus its employers -- are still in the grip of such industrialunions as the United Auto Workers.
The UAW was one of two major industrialunions -- the other being the Teamsters --that voted against the AFL-CIO endorsement of Gore over his Democratic primary rival Bill Bradley late last year.
Pay settlements of 3% -plus demanded by powerful German industrial trades unions, principally the engineering union IG Metall, are a huge new threat to stable prices in the principal anti-inflation European economy.