Great documentary with so many issues covered, but no solution I enjoyed this on so many levels. First it brought clearly into vision the disaster WE caused for the blue collar worker with all the free trade deals over the last few decades without any real rules to assure everyone had a fair chance. We created this monster in China over decades of our policies and then our desire for cheap prices. Clearly the Chinese as well as other cultures are raised with a different set of purpose, duty to ones country and work place even above their own desires. Clearly when you see the interviews with Chinese workers in China that work 12 hour days and get maybe 2 days off a month and then rarely see their families tells you they are in an oppressive society.
This documentary shows you the need for not only OSHA, it then general laws in general to protect not only the worker, but the environment. I am very mixed on the need for organized labor as it has typically taken issues at one extreme of the workplace and moved them to the other extreme. One US lady summed it up well, by stating the union does not help her (a good worker) rather it protects the bad worker. The UAW in my opinion helped ruin the auto jobs in the US. Sure these people were quoted as making $29 / hr for GM and now make $12-$14 which needs to be fixed, but unions need to find a place where they can partner with business, rather than the constant adversarial role they play in the auto industry.
I would love to see a documentary on how well or not the non-unionized plants of Nissan and Toyota are fairing?
This is eye opening, and we need to do something to help train and retrain many blue collar workers whose jobs are being lost to machines or cheaper overseas labor. I am not a Trump fan, but China has taken advantage of us for a long time and will own us all if we don't do something. We need better trade policy that adjusts import duties based on worker conditions so that is a country is supporting unfair human labor practices their goods should be taxed to make the prices equivalent to what they would be had they paid their people a fair wage in good work conditions. And while I am sure many will say "hell yeah" they will also be the same people that will complain when they go to the store to buy clothing or electronics and those priciest increase because of this.
We are a country of Hippocrates that will stay in this cycle until we start recognizing what it will take to improve our own culture.