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PackHunter Posts: 47
Registered: 2001-12-20 06:39:10
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Elkad posted:
That sounds perfectly reasonable for a job a monkey could probably do. Especially considering they are probably getting another $25/hr in benefits.
Apparently, the same could be said about your job.
I'm sure you'd line up to take a 50% pay cut to help your struggling business that reported significant profits survive, right?
If CAT got a single dollar in tax relief when they purchased that plant, they sure as he-double-hockey-sticks better be forced to repay every single penny.
The funniest part is, the Federal government is blaming the provincial government for letting it happen.
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Elkad  Title: aka Ebenezer
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Registered: 2003-9-11 22:20:55
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If the choice is $16.50/hr or $7 at McDonalds, I'd damn sure take it.
CAT could probably reopen the plant, union free, and fill every job at that new pay scale. Except they'd have to deal with the Union blockading them (and probably beating up workers). Easier to just move.
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Fat_wong Posts: 293
Registered: 2007-2-6 07:59:17
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Elkad posted:
If the choice is $16.50/hr or $7 at McDonalds, I'd damn sure take it.
CAT could probably reopen the plant, union free, and fill every job at that new pay scale. Except they'd have to deal with the Union blockading them (and probably beating up workers). Easier to just move.
seriously you would puss out that easy? are you only qualified for mcdonalds?
maybe these people have abit more going for them.
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ZigmundZag  Title: Grammar Nazi
Posts: 1,211
Registered: 2002-3-25 23:03:00
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Elkad has mentioned before that he lives in a trailer. He's not exactly a good baseline for an American/Canadian standard of living.
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Tych2 Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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Registered: 2005-3-1 06:56:47
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Sucks for Canada I guess. I wish we could stop this crap.
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Akza Posts: 271
Registered: 2002-9-8 18:02:25
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wow eikad.
this world would be a better place without your kind of ideology.
im sure you have wet dreams of the days of the industrial revolution.
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Me 2 but it is what it is.
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PackHunter Posts: 47
Registered: 2001-12-20 06:39:10
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Elkad posted:
If the choice is $16.50/hr or $7 at McDonalds, I'd damn sure take it.
I doubt it.
You'd probably be too busy blaming the government.
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Sansfear  Posts: 757
Registered: 2008-8-31 05:04:52
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There is nothing about IP in the story. It is purely about wages and benefits.
The jobs are coming to a plant in Indiana at half the wages of the Canadian plant. There are also plans to build a plant in Brazil, but the main beneficiary is the Indiana plant.
Why should a company pay someone $30-$40/hour when someone else will do the same job for $15-$20?
Sucks for the workers, but they didn't have to turn down the contract, either. Now they have nothing.
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Fat_wong Posts: 293
Registered: 2007-2-6 07:59:17
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they bought the plant to shut it down. The 15 dollar an hour is almost a non issue at this point.
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