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Originally posted by Bluesman
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Union worker, HS grad or not = $30.00 per hour.
Non Union, 3rd world labor= $5.00 per hour.
You own the business... where to you take your labor?
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America 'cares' so much about the poor residents of other countries such as Iraq, but turns a blind eye towards it's own resident CEO's and businesses basically off-shoring slavery.
Simple solution, and the fairest, to me anyway, would be to extend the OSHA, legal protections granted US workers, wage and hour law, requirements to any use of non-US workers used to produce products for sale in the US. Just as if you're a goverment contractor/supplier and need to adhere to goverment mandates concerning type/amount/usage of labor used to supply your side of the contract, those same sort of laws should be extended to encompass the whole world if they're supplying US consumers.
I'd like to see the EPA go to town on some of those Chinese steel mills for a start. And OSHA in Hong Kong would be 'interesting'.
All anyone really wants is a level playing ground.