Re: THIS POST IS CORRECT

Posted by gascolator on April 04, 2005 at 12:38:47 from (65.202.158.66):

In Reply to: Re: THIS POST IS CORRECT posted by CNKS on April 02, 2005 at 18:08:44:

The labor unions don't price us out of the
market.

Paying people a living wage so that they can
feed and shelter their family and send their
kids to college, medical benefits so that if
they get sick they have some alternative other
than to lay down and die, and generally have
a decent life, that's what costs.

Not an extravagent life, that's reserved for the
guys who run the show and get a few million severance pay if they do screw up and get fired.

Yeah, pay people next-to-nothing, work them to
death in dangerous conditions, and throw them
away when you're done with 'em. Maybe have
a few more 'Triangle Shirtwaist' kinds of
situations. Maybe throw in some short-handled
hoes while we're at it. That'll get prices down.
That'll make us more 'competitive.'

Won't we be so much better off then?

Are the kinds of working conditions you see
in Indonesia and China really what you want?
Is air so dirty that it kills people and crops
miles away really what you want?

Justice for workers costs money; that's not
the unions' fault. But thank god there are still
unions around to keep insisting on it.

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