well I stayed out of this, butI watched this very same thing happen at the company i just left (I was smart enough to see the writing on the wall)  I worked for a company doing 400 million in sales with a net profit margin somewhere in the 10-12% (which if you know business is a dang good net profit)  We did not see raises in two years, watched our health care costs go up, and then in the last year I watched them move all of my projects, which were being built at a plant in Iowa (Read low wages) to an offshore manufacturer.  Why, to increase the bottom line more.  This is the whole problem with the american economy right now.  The US goverment allows US based companies to go over seas, and to import without heavy import taxes, whereas the companies in the US who try to export are hammered heavily with import tariffs around the world.  The US one of the richest counties in the world cannot, and will not protect it manufacturing sector.  This is why our trade defecit is so high, this is why companies go over seas, this is why the US will turn into a tourist attraction and we will all be working in the service industry before it is done.  Are there times when a company has to do drastic things to survive, you bet, Brunswick Bowling from what I heard was operating in the Red and needed to so something drastic.  But this issue goes beyond Brunswick, GE, GM, Ford, Chrysler, some of their moves are strictly profit motivated. That is the part that is wrong.  companies need to look at what got them there, and look internally to fix temporary cash issues. the company I worked for for example, CEO and his group of "excutives" in excess of 5 million in bonus' when the working guy did not get as much of a sniff at a raise.  That is another of the underlining problems here.  my pay increase is based upon performance as theirs should be too