Reality is this, most manufacturing jobs should pay between $8 to $12, and skilled jobs $15 to $20 (maintenance and quality). Once we got beyond this pay scale, it was like pulling the pin on a grenade, you knew what was going to happen.
Heavy equipment operators are now at $42.00/hr here in central IN. Laborers over $30/hr.
however,, the unions grab around 1/3 of that for "benefits."
143 posted on 10/24/2010 5:37:40 PM PDT by digger48