> I guess it depends on whether an industry is growing in employment and importance
No, it depends on the country's cultural background. The US (and France, for instance) have a history of adversarial labour relations, where labour negotiations are a war and the goal is to defeat the other party into submission (for labour) or destruction (for companies). Germany and scandinavian countries are rooted in much more cooperative labour relations which is why e.g. they don't need legally mandated minimum wages, they have minimum wages from collective agreements.
And when a company whose culture is rooted in the adversarial model lands in a cooperative country things get bad[0]. I'd also expect an interesting time with a company built around the cooperative model in the midst of an adversarial culture and hoped VW's TN plant could be one such, but apparently that's not going to happen.
No, it depends on the country's cultural background. The US (and France, for instance) have a history of adversarial labour relations, where labour negotiations are a war and the goal is to defeat the other party into submission (for labour) or destruction (for companies). Germany and scandinavian countries are rooted in much more cooperative labour relations which is why e.g. they don't need legally mandated minimum wages, they have minimum wages from collective agreements.
And when a company whose culture is rooted in the adversarial model lands in a cooperative country things get bad[0]. I'd also expect an interesting time with a company built around the cooperative model in the midst of an adversarial culture and hoped VW's TN plant could be one such, but apparently that's not going to happen.
[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/business/workers-of-amazon...