Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackwolf
I see this as a problem also. Except I see it from a different position. Try to raise a family on $12 ~ $15 an hour. It's not necessarily that the US worker is OVERPAID, in my opinion, the foreign car worker is underpaid!
It's called a livable wage. 
 |
And the beauty of America and a free market is that you have the power to make your own future...... if you don't want that $12-15/hr job, get an education or take up a valueable trade (of which there are many, non-union, respectable trades that are very lucrative - moreso than car building).
No one puts a gun to anyone's head and tells them they have to take a job doing anything. On that same token, only unions put guns to companies heads and tells them what to pay people. If you're happy with the wage you make, great! If not, go after a career that makes more money and will be in demand. But unions have far usurped the reason for their existance a long time ago.
This is no longer the 1930's and the days of Jimmy Hoffa and the mafia vs big business slave drivers. Today there are laws (which I will certainly thank the unions for fighting for) that protect the worker in ways they were not protected before unions. These laws provide a safe and effective working environment and prevent companies from essentially slave driving workers. These laws DO NOT nor will they EVER dictate the free market value of anyone's employment. That is anti-capitolism. It is socialism. And such practices hold not only business but workers from advancing their production and income.