Reply #83: K&R This myth needs to be debunked. [View All]

[bobd0]

This is class warfare, plain and simple. They're using patently false figures to divide and conquer blue collar workers -- AGAIN. I don't understand how the unions and media continue to allow this lie to continue. Unless it's the same old story of the corporate owned media just doing their masters' bidding.

I worked at companies that touted our "Total Compensation Package" that came up with some ridiculous hourly rate that we weren't earning a third of. They'd have year-end meetings to tell us how much the company was paying us in total compensation. Every year when I saw the figure I'd tell them they owed me some money. I'm sure you know their response. So I'd tell them I can't pay my bills with benefits. Can I call my mortgage company and tell them I'm paying this month with my health insurance benefit? Hell no. (Health insurance which, BTW, has become little more than catastrophic illness insurance in recent years -- with higher premiums and reduced benefits.) And that's not to mention the two-tiered system they initiated for new hires. I've worked for less than one-quarter of scale to get my foot in the door at several union and non-union companies and without benefits as well. So I know exactly where you're coming from.

So thanks for venting. I wish those blue-collar suckers who fall for this $80/hr myth would wake up and realize this for what it is; the Republican Party and their corporate buddies waging class warfare against workers by poisoning the waters and pitting us against each other.