Unions brought equal rights & labor laws when they were needed.  There is no longer a need for unions.  If some company tried to do what they did to employees in the 30's, 40's etc.  That employee would own the damn company now days.  

I bet most people who read this article are "shareholders".  I don't know about the rest of them, but I don't want to give up my 8% return just to prove a point.  If that CEO makes the bottom line profitable and people buy their stock, therefore driving up the price so I can profit.  Then more power to him!

Jason:

   I am a share holder; but I don't want jobs overseas with so many US workers out of jobs.  And if profit is what you are after - ask your CEO buddies to cut their pay in 1/2...that would save millions; or ask them to for go bonus checks....

I've seem the results of off shore work as well.  Honestly, the really talented people are already in the US because most US companies complained there were not enough qualified workers in the US.  That was a incorrect.  The real reason was the US companies were not willing to pay what the US workers were asking so they invented the shortage.  

oops -  I mean Wilber in my last post, not Jason...

I've worked for one of the Fortune 500 companies for 35 years.   Life has definitely changed since I first started.   This world has fallen victim to greed.  No one, I don't care if you're a CEO or whatever is worth tens of millions a year.   And if they keep this up without giving some things up also, they may be doing all the work themselves or have all the work outside the US.   I'm personally very tired of the unethical greed I see in corporations and financial groups.   How can you feel good laying people off, yet at the same time taking bonuses for millions of dollars.   I think it's indicative of sociopathic behavior.   Wake up, there's a world around you, you are not the world.  

I like the guy that runs Zappos theories, and he's very successful.  

Working for a large corporation has become a game, and there are sure a bunch of people playing it to the max to win, even if means hurting thousands of people around them.    

Life is a game.  

The rich people are simply the ones that play the game the best.

Wilbur - that doesn't make it acceptable to ruin the livelihood and lives of fellow men and women - pretty soon no one will be able to buy anything in this country -

Lots of truth here regarding life and work in India. Society is different, too. When tens of thousands were killed by the last major Tsunami an American M.D. of  Indian heritage asked me why we were making such a big deal over such a small portion of the population being killed in an overpopulated country. Just this week I saw an early evening national news broadcast feature piece. It was a family hardship article about a UAW worker. He spent ALL of his days fishing to distract himself. His son had quit college. The man was articulate and seemed intelligent but morbidly obese. Drawing 80% of his wage not working. Twice my household income since I became disabled with a very painful progressive disease 12 years ago. I worked two years beyond medical advice to provide for my family. Where are the volunteer programs for the paid-not-to-work UAW hiding? Same news broadcast has featured multiple articles about the needy of Detroit. Want to trade that fishing pole for a paint brush for help to the elderly? Help with reading programs for inner city youth? America has a social problem beyond greed. I can't remember last seeing a teenager going door-to-door with a lawnmower or snow shovel. Nearly 50 years ago, when I was 16, I paid cash for my first used car from money saved using shovels and mowers. I was *not* unique. I graduated from college with savings, *not* loan debt. Greed is a minor portion of a capitalist society--we invest our retirement savings in the most profitable companies; look in the mirror to see the face of greed. We are victims of our own sick society. The "entitlement disease." We've lost the Great American Work Ethic. I hope we find it for the sake of our children.      

When a company goes public, they give up any personal feelings toward their employees, they are just a part of the profit.  Every employee of that company works for shareholders.

A good way to be able to buy more American products, is to buy them from privately held U.S. companies.  They actually care about their employees... most of the time.

I think this was a horrible thing to tell employees.  This shows the french clothing manufacturer to be just another terribly run business!  Even if some of their employees were dumb enough to fall for this statement; the company itself would go bankrupt with all the litigation that would start up just trying to keep current customers happy! This is silly!  No one is FORCING a corporation to outsource its' jobs!  The lousy management does it to keep up the level of profits for management!  Unions aren't the answer.  They can't regulate wages worldwide.  It's actually cheaper in many ways to run a much smaller business and build profit margins and benefits for the workers than to keep playing this game.