Re: WGA Strike 90%+ vote to strike

"Josh Hill" <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:13:10 -0500, "Carl" <cengman7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


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But they are NOT a tiny percentage of the workforce that works at
minimum wage.

Perhaps, but I wasn't talking about people who work at minimum wage.
You were the one who brought that up. I was talking about people who
earn poverty-level wages, like employees at Wal-Mart.

The minumum wage, being less than what Wal Mart pays, seems to fit your
definition of "poverty level wages".

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Most of them
aren't high school students, who wouldn't even be available during
business hours. These are precisely the conditions that unions would
help to redress; this source, for example, says that the average union
wage is 28% higher than the average non-union wage:


http://www.workinglife.org/wiki/index.php?page=Union+vs.+Nonunion%3A+Wages+(2004)

-- and benefits such as health care and pensions would increase that
differential.

Yeah, and 30% of the cost of sa U.S. made car is in auto worker health
benefits.

See what that did to the US auto industry.

Right. And for that you can thank the Republicans for blocking the
universal health care that every other industrialized nation has. Our
insane health care costs are one of the reasons American factories
can't compete.

Would you trust GWB and the Republicans to run your health care?
:-)


How about the US electronics
industry?

Make everyone pay more and more for everything and people will buy
less and less of it. You'll have wonderfully paid employees for a short
time,
until they get laid off.

Great business model.

For which you can thank the Republicans and their support for
unbridled globalization. American factory worker earning $20 an hour
competes with Chinese factory worker earning 15 cents an hour. Result:
American factory closes. Great business model.


So what would you like? Embargo? Tariffs?

Dennis


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