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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-03 12:00 PM
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6. ALL workers should be unionized
and if there is a minimum wage, there should be a maximum wage..

How many houses/cars/furs/diamonds does one person need??

Just as there are wage "steps" that workers must go through as their pay/benefits rise, so should there be plateaus for the top guys.. If the company is poorly run and loses money, THEIR pay gets cut.. Two or three quarters of loss, and THEY are out the door----sans parachute, golden or otherwise..

There is NO excuse for the few at the top to be so badly affecting the lives of their workers.. They cavalierly "cut" jobs to protect their perks and in the process doom whole families and even towns to poverty.. It does not affect THEM, because they have contracts and lawyers to protect them, but the workers are ususally there as long as the boss can't find anyone cheaper..


Unions were the answer years ago, and regardless of what the repubbies say, they are STILL the answer..
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