USENET READER wrote:

You think that some CEO oughta be able to inflate his salary by cutting
the salaries of US workers?

How many days a week do you work? Unions fought for health coverage on
teh job, workplace health and safety laws, wage and hour laws, Social
Secutiry, etc. You wouldn't have the protections you have - or your
fingers, eyes, toes, and other body parts - if not for unions!

Only thing any union ever did for me was negotiate a pay cut.

Leon wrote:

A Concerned Woodworker wrote in message
...

Well, just to let you guys know, I have been made aware of a very
unfortunate piece of information. Paslode has decided to have their
major internal components for the cordless nail gun group, to be
manufactured and machined in China. This may not sound like much, but
this amounts to 95 % of the internal workings of the gun. This will
include all framers as well as trimmers. This will more than likely
lead to more failures in the field, and God knows when we pay as much
for these tools as we do, we expect them to work ! Oh well, another
quality tool down the crapper !!!


If you think made in China means poor quality, you are sadly mistaken.
The reason more is going to China is because the Chinese are willing to
build
the products for the what they are really worth. There really is no
reason in the world that a nail gun should cost $300, other than to pay a
high
salary. I have to say, high union labor is running more jobs off to
over
seas manufacturers. It aint rocket science to build a nail gun and yet
the workers here think that they should be paid rocket science wages.



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