Lennie the Lurker wrote:
"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
m...
Sorry, but when the union
says that I have to pay a floor sweeper or a button pusher $20 / hr
plus benies, they are DESTROYING American manufacturing more that
the plant closers and importers.

A = B, meaning if you don't pay a man enough to live on, he's doing
himself and his family a favor by moving on to someone that will. He
is not doing himself or his family any favor trying to work for
subsistance wages while the owner spends three months a year in
Bermuda. (Harry Bohn, Deluxe tool in Racine Wisconsin, company now
defunct, thankfully.)

What you don't, and WON'T understand is that for the high wages, you
are expected to have a high output, of high quality. What you would
like to believe is that high productivity and high quality are
available with walmart workers. You want good people, either you pay
for them or put up with the bunch of ringers you WILL get. But then
the days of people working more than a year or two for any one company
are long gone, usually so are the companies, broken from the top
position.

One employer I had, and a good one, had the policy of never asking a
worker to do something he would not do himself, and he asked himself
how much he would want to do that same job, paying accordingly. It's
called being a good man to work for, and they are also things of the
past. There is no such thing left as an employer that cares what he
has to do, as long as it isn't paying a living wage. Employers want,
demand, loyalty, but are shocked to find that it might be expected in
return. When they don't get it, their teeny mentalities can't cope
with it.

In over 25 years, Case never had any labor problems that couldn't be
solved in less than a week, sometimes in a day, to the satisfaction of
both the union and the company. In the few years that the scabsuckers
from the netherlands have had their filthy mitts in the company, new
holland has eliminated any sense of working for a common goal, that of
seeing that the company survives. Their only object from the
beginning was to break Case and move the production overseas, which
they will probably do within the next year.

And if the company you worked for DEMANDED a $5 per hour cut PLUS a
$300 per month increase in insurance contribution, I suppose you'd get
down and suck them for it. WHich is typical of scabs.
Well said Lennie.

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