han $15 billion, but in the process, labor has been undermined by the creation of competition both between workers from different regional labor markets and within such markets (Vogel, 2008). The United Auto Workers, or UAW, union, which used to be one of the strongest labor unions in North America, has been decimated, and wages and benefits have progressively eroded (Vogel, 2008). At TMMTX, the use of cheap labor has "produced mass economic displacement and devastation for working people and their communities" (Vogel, 2008). Moreover, globalization also works in reverse-TMMTX actually fuels globalization. As Vogel (2008) notes, "Multinational corporations maintain control of wages in regional labor markets through the payment of surwages that subvert unionization and help maintain low regional labor costs," with the control of regional wages being "a key factor in the survival and expansion of globalization."
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