" (50) Therefore, although women were the prominent source of labor, they did not get the job very easily. The sound of a union to the Bloomington workers began to be like music. One worker, Bob Doty, recalls why the unionization occurred. "the bosses couldn't understand hwy I couldn't keep up I was just a hick kid I"d never been inside of a place like that before and these people, a lot of them, had come from New Jersey, see And they couldn't understand why the people around the Bloomington area couldn't keep up."(53) Many of the other workers felt as overwhelmed as Bob Doty. Between 1964 and 1967, the workers of the Bloomington plant struck against the company a total of three messages.
Memphis, Tennessee was the next move that RCA made. They set up shop there to produce one of the largest plants in the city. The plan was that the "better" labor in Memphis was going to surpass the Bloomington plant.(73) Memphis was just as happy to see RCA appear as RCA was to be there. The reason for the move, again, was the desperation of the people for a job. Again, they wanted young females for employees. Memphis was also a perfect location for RCA because of the low electrical costs. (80) RCA painted a pretty picture for the potential workers by offering higher pay than most of the other opportunities in Memphis. Almost directly after the company set up in Memphis, the workers began to unionize. Before the shutdown of the Memphis plant, rumors had already been circulating for a few months, so it did not come as a surprise to many.(92).
Luckily, a little before the plant in Bloomington shut down, RCA built a plant in Cuidad Juarez. There were three main reasons for moving to Mexico for labor, " (1) availability of labor, (2)low unit labor cost, and (3)favorable labor relations."(116) This was a great move for RCA because of the excitement that the Mexicans had about the new work.
