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    Class Warfare, Heartland USA,: Wisconsin

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    Uh, the simple expedient that over time the particular value of X changes leaving some employees at Y, others at X and much discord because Z can be quite large.

     

    When you make it clear that it's either take across the board cuts, or layoffs, or put the new guys on a lower pay and benefit scale somehow the old guard finds a way to cope with making signficantly more money than the new hires.

     

    :lmao: yeah, that's exactly what happens when you threaten across the board pay cuts.

     

    next Jay_B will argue there's no instituitional knowledge or on the job training for police, firefighters and teachers :lmao:

     

    Viva the free market!

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    this is fucking Russia man

    Ed at Gin and Tacos picked up on a particularly audacious section of the Wisconsin budget-repair bill yesterday: the governor can sell off any state-owned heating, cooling, and power plants he likes, at any price, to anybody he wants, without any kind of auction or bid-solicitation process, and such a sale would be defined as being in the best interest of the state and to comply with criteria for certifying such a transaction.

    I can here PP fapping half a world away

    Class Warfare, Heartland USA,: Wisconsin

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    bullshit. Jobs are outsourced not because of automation but because of dirt cheap labor and no environmental regulation in developing nations. You have already played that trick on us several times.

     

    You clearly know fuckall about manufacturing.

     

     

    as someone who works in manufacturing... that's kinda true. I can think of several places that couldn't compete with chinese making $1/week even after lots of automation upgrades

    Class Warfare, Heartland USA,: Wisconsin

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    Back from lunch, hard at work already?

     

    Union lunch?

     

    that's actually a fun one to compare, regarding teaching unions

     

    my first job was in north carolina, essentially no union there - my lunch was 20 minutes long and i was on duty during it, sitting 10 feet away from a thousand 13 year olds, tasked with ensuring none of them stood up, talked loudly, threw fritos at each other or generally had fun. here in washington, my union's much stronger than back east, and i get 30 minutes to be myself and not an employee (though, since i don't lock my door, a large gang usually shows up in my room anyway and i mix giving them good-natured crap along with spraying and reading actual news).

     

    it's no suprise i don't work in north carolina anymore

     

     

     

    Perhaps more to do with local labor law than the union - a number of states mandate a lunchbreak (non-waivable) for all workers on an 8 hr day. I beleive CA falls into this.

    Class Warfare, Heartland USA,: Wisconsin

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    Manufacturing output in this country has continuously increased while manufacturing employment as a percentage of the population has continuously decreased.

     

    Now the question is, how are we going to inflate the next bubble that will keep this absurd farce going?

     

    hey Apple is a manufacturer. Hows that for farce?

    Class Warfare, Heartland USA,: Wisconsin

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    The fact that there are literally hundreds or thousands of applicants for every fire-fighting job suggests that we'd have no problem staffing our fire stations with qualified people who are every bit as capable of performing all of the necessary job functions at a significantly lower cost to the public.

     

    Logical fallacy. Just because there are a lot of applicants doesn't meant there are a lot of good applicants, or that there is "no problem" finding good applicants.

     

    hey, if he's right the solution to the Health Care crisis is to open med school to everyone.

    Class Warfare, Heartland USA,: Wisconsin

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    the teachers' union didn't argue for MBAs (or similar) to be paid several times what many PhDs in Physics make, free-marketeers did.

     

    In Sweden, anyone who'd argue to take away bargaining rights from employees would be considered to have something in common with Adolf!

     

    Arguing that some abstract definition of rank or merit should entitle someone to a pre-determined socio-economic status in society pretty much puts you in the same camp as social conservatives who can't cope with the fact that when people are free to spend their money as they please, pornographers tend to out-earn priests.

     

     

    On planet earth here religion is still much bigger business than porn.

    Vegans with Pets

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    I'm going to guess that most everyone in this thread that is bashing vegan diets is a fat ass. Prove me wrong, post up your height and weight.

     

    -Nate

     

     

     

    Given the physical nature of this site I don't expect you're going too find many over weight people here.

     

     

     

    you go outside?

    Class Warfare, Heartland USA,: Wisconsin

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    check out Walmart, the no-collective bargaining employment model of the future, and you'll see the nightmare scenario.

     

    So...why aren't the folks at Microsoft, who also lack collective bargaining privileges also working for Walmart wages? Ditto for everyone else in the private labor market that earn higher total compensation than Walmart offers its retail employees, which are higher than the retail average.

     

    If collective bargaining is what determines wages rates, why isn't the pay for the store manager the same as the greeter's?

     

     

    They are working for WalMart wages... in India.

     

     

    Still curiously why you think Virginia (who's economy resolves mostly on Federal Government spending) is the top choice for a place to live

    Class Warfare, Heartland USA,: Wisconsin

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    The protesters are claiming to be protesting certain policies yet their argumentation seems to be more of an ad hominem nature and is at best clichéd sloganeering. I was struck by how closely they resembled J_B’s attacks argumentation on this site. The links we a couple examples that popped up on a google search.

     

    The Shit calling the Turd brown.

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