Letter to the editor: Time to demand higher wages

[Omaha Steve]

http://blogs.kansascity.com/unfettered_letters/2008/06/time-to-demand.html

June 05, 2008

Higher prices for the working people are the cost of doing business: gasoline to go to work, baby sitters and school lunches. But unlike the big companies, we have a tougher time absorbing the costs.

One way we can fight back is with a better wage increase. We can let the unions demand a wage increase to whatever percent prices go up on commodities that we are held hostage with, such as gasoline, utilities, taxes and whatever we buy from foreign countries. Especially the ones that sell us oil.

The non-union employers will follow the unions. I know some people don’t like unions, but they do set the pace for everyone’s wages.

Also, senior citizens over 70 should get a discount on the gas tax and school taxes, as we don’t drive as much anymore and have no one in school. We paid our dues.

If that doesn’t work, we should fight back at the polls by voting out all those in office and trying to get new ones in until we get somebody who cares.

Joe Christifano
Kansas City

[Trajan]

1. Shout it from the rooftops

Something dear to my own UAW heart : WAGES WAGES WAGES !

The intentional suppression of worker wages has been the BIGGEST cause of our current financial debacle .... IF workers had been offered decent raises these last decades: Mortgages would be paid, kids would be in college, cars would be paid off and retirements would be possible ....

They have starved the bottom, and will reap less profits from the workers who are reduced to buying ONLY required items, without disposable income necessary to create a strong economy for all ....

The bastards have done it again .... They have seriously damaged the Middle Class ....