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*Private sector pushed a lot of jobs overseas for the past 20-30 years, removing many production-based jobs, leaving mainly only service positions.
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These jobs move overseas because it is nonsensically expensive to employ people to do manual labor full time in this country between unions, the cost of complying with incredibly complex federal, state and local regulations, payroll tax, workman's comp and related insurance, minimum wage, etc.
None of those things a business has control over, so to imply that businesses are at fault for wanting to operate at a profit by sourcing manufacturing overseas is absurd, as are many of the other random statistics cobbled together with implied causation used by the protestors. They show a STUNNING lack of a working knowledge of things like the tax code, business history, cost accounting, macro economics, etc. It's amazingly easy to blame faceless corporations for your problems if you don't examine the processes by which businesses arrived at their current method of operation.
The american auto industry is a pretty perfect example. Those companies kept manufacturing here as a matter of pride and principle and required a massive bailout due to their completely borked cost structure imposed by unions and unreasonable pension expectations / pay. They will go through the same process again in the future, it's absolutely inevitable without major changes.