Will you all not be happy til all ‘workers’ earn a buck an hour?
This is a race to the bottom, third world status.
You people are clueless.
Well, that's a buck more than these folks will be making now.
The auto makers are still paying thousands of workers to sit in "rubber rooms", some of them making more than $100,000, to do nothing. The UAW takes a chunk of their "money for nothing", and spends it to elect Democrats.
Who is clueless, here?
Tell your Democrat friends to STOP OUTFORCING AMERICA’S JOBS then....
This isn’t rocket science...
Why the scare quotes around 'workers'? Would you rather they be referred to as "the proletariat"?
Management and ownership are 'workers', too. They invest their time, energy and money in the business, as well. They don't owe the 'workers' any more than they can afford.
Personally, I'll be happy when all well-run companies make a profit and their 'workers' are paid appropriate to their services. Or better.
And we're done with this class warfare bullshit.
You people are clueless.
Somebody is, that's for sure.
Yep, we're at Third world status: most third world employees are as well educated and have a better work ethic than your average union goon.
And they will happily work for much less than $14/hr.
Why do these bums think they're entitled to some wage, just because they live in the US?.
It’s Bush’s fault.
Let’s raise the tax on that darn corporation. We’ll show them.
It was because of the tsunami in Japan.
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Anything that can destroy unions is great in my book. Unions have destroyed America. It is payback time.
I work for a 40B company and we sell product world wide.
90% built in the USA.
Unions would destroy us if it ever got implemented here.
Guess I’m not totally clueless. I DID leave MN 30 years ago because your average MN thinks High Tech is having a car which starts at -20deg.
Unions are anachronistic...not to mention thuggish, Socialist, and downright hostile to the industries and companies they consistently rape.
Spare us all your crocodile tears for these a**holes. You’re on the wrong forum for that, pal.
Do you understand that everyone brings something to the party....the employer and the employee....only union pukes think that the employee’s bring more to the party...
Who are these "you people"? Perhaps you refer to business owners (like myself) who create jobs and wealth from thin air by our labor and intellect. Businesses exist to create wealth, not provide jobs. When you start to understand that, you'll be well on your way to an objective vision of the world.
You are free to find other more suitable employment. You are free to start a competing business and hire employees at $28/hr and “stick it to the man”.
Know this: Any employee can be replaced. Either by another employee or by a machine.
Solution: Find a need the market cannot do without and fill that need more efficiently than anybody else.
AAM got hit with a parasite, the union, which killed it. One thing that could have helped the situation is for the union to agree to cut its dues to $0. In my wife’s case, that would be more than $1K per year difference in disposable income.
Not sure, but I’ll bet the union reps still have jobs with the UAW somehow.
Many small business owners earn less than their lowest paid employee nowadays. Will you not be happy until profit margins are cut to zero?
Who will then grow the business, invest in R&D, and most importantly, pay the idiotic corporate taxes and the settlements foisted on them by the tort bar.
Capital does not go where it cannot grow. Why, after 6000 years can liberals not get that through their thick red and pink skulls?
Actually, *you* are the clueless one. Try turning off the TV and picking up an econ textbook. Or, better yet, try running your own business sometime. Your comment makes it abundantly clear that you know f**k-all about economics or business.
I have no sympathy at all for union workers, particularly since unions tend to support the Dem politicians that got us into this mess.
Either the company reduces wages to fair market levels, or jobs move overseas.
Communist Manifesto
Plank #8. “Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. “
Americans call it Minimum Wage and slave labor like dealing with our Most Favored Nation trade partner; i.e. Communist China. We see it in practice via the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two “income” family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920’s, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000.
http://www.libertyzone.com/Communist-Manifesto-Planks.html
As I said 20 years ago, globalization means that third world workers will have to make more and US workers less. No one will ultimately be paid one cent more than they are worth.