Originally posted by meep-meep
Do you think skilled trade workers should be paid minimum wage?
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"In the case of so called minimum wage law the empirical evidence has been growing that it not only increases unemployment, but that it does so most among the most disadvantaged workers."
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Originally posted by Flyattractor
[b]Tough call. What type Elec we talking? Construction. Mechanical? Engineer? The poor slob that has to keep Hillary's server up and pumping? [/B]
My thought was regarding mostly the construction electrician work force. I should include carpenters, masons, heavy equipment operators and even some laborers. I'm not against privately owned trade companies, mind you. I just worry that disbanding some of these unions could lower the wages for some of these skilled jobs. I work for a private company and I work around a lot of union folk, and some of these people are lazy sobs, especially the California based ones. That said, unions are here to prevent the pencil pushers from taking advantage. Just MO.
In my brief time with the usps (As a "casual", or basically a non union protected temp) there were two types of union guys: The lazy slob who sat on his ass all day and ranted about politics. And the driven guy who was always on the management about every single infraction (My aunt was one of the latter. She got punched in the nose once by a boss.)
A lot of other places do have bad/lazy/clueless unions's, though.
Whoa! Did she file charges? One thing I have respect for a lot of private skilled workers, is that they (in my experience) tend to push the people trying to skate by. Whether they get pushed out or up is entirely up to them. I know that there are unions like that, as well. I'm not generalizing that unions are crappy. In my opinion they need to exist. Otherwise skilled carpenters, brick layers etc. would see a significant wage drop.