1.   Although the LTLs and truckload carriers use cheaper non-union labor, a recent shortage of drivers could force some companies to boost their pay.

2.   Another law, many economists say, is that tariffs protect jobs in industries facing competition from countries with cheaper labor only temporarily.

3.   At those sites, the company can import parts to Mexico duty-free, have them assembled by cheaper Mexican labor and then export the products back to the U.S.

4.   After the products are assembled by cheaper Mexican labor, they are exported back to this country.

5.   Buchanan has been hammering business policies that lose U.S. jobs to cheaper labor markets.

6.   But another is to take advantage of cheaper labor.

7.   Cheaper American labor will help us compete abroad, they reason.

8.   Cheaper labor is another irresistible lure from the south, McCormack admits.

9.   Companies are shifting production overseas to exploit cheaper labor costs abroad, to avoid losing money from the high yen and to establish plants closer to foreign markets.

10.   Companies have been migrating for decades, of course, moving operations both within the United States and overseas for many reasons, including the search for cheaper labor.