England suffered this same fate back in the seventies. I only know this because of Top Gear...... Lost all their local manufacturing because of long term strikes from unions / employees over better wages etc or whatever.
They are back now..... I am guessing they waited till all the union members retired then started afresh...... Not a bad ides, like it has been said before, they will never back down once they have what they want. Until of course there is no jobs for them to protect.
