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Originally posted by cjr1
Flintstone,
So your opinion is that factory workers are not worth $27/hr?These are people that produce things that we use everyday,work rotating shifts,miss lots of family functions etc,etc.What would you think would be a fair wage to give up these types of things that most normal people take for granted.Someone has to do it or import everything!
Chris
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Clearly they are not worth $27 per hour. In cases where a typical relatively unskilled, uneducated employee makes $27 per hour, unions clearly have embarked on a course that will not allow the company to succeed on a long term basis. Union members should realize that they are giving up job security for short term, higher wages. Unions are a victim of their own success. When the company does well, it blackmails the management into excessive wage and benefit concessions. Then when things are tough, they are not about to cinch their belts and by then, members have come to believe they somehow deserve to make 2 to 3 times what other workers are willing to do the same job for. Unless union employees are 3 times as productive as others or the company only makes a product that enjoys some sort of protection or monopoly, there is always someone who will produce the same or better for much less money. Not just outside the US, but almost anywhere in "small town USA". That is the problem with unions. Usually they prevent the company and its employees from teaming to make a good product at competitive price.
Face it, almost everyone works long hours, rotating shifts, miss family functions, etc. Most folks on salary probably work close to 60 hrs per week...and earn less than $27 per hour if you divide their salary by hours worked.
If you used similar rationale for food service employes, it would cost you 20 bucks to buy a burger at the McDonalds drive through at night or or on the weekend. The same is true for grocery stores, gas stations, farm workers, etc. As long as union workers are willing to pay 3 times as much for everything they buy, paying them 3 times as much for equally skilled work would make sense. But even that would not work unless we closed the border to imports.
If the Delphi workers were actually earning/worth $27 per hour, there would be a long line of companies competing for their skills..and Delphi bankrupcy would mean nothing.