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rfranklin

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3. Better yet, if they could bring wages in line with other Western Hemisphere countries....like Haiti

Reply to ProfessionalLeftist (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 10:32 AM

Feb 2012

WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day

The factory owners told the Haitian Parliament that they were willing to give workers a 9-cents-per-hour pay increase to 31 cents per hour to make T-shirts, bras and underwear for US clothing giants like Dockers and Nautica.

But the factory owners refused to pay 62 cents per hour, or $5 per day, as a measure unanimously passed by the Haitian Parliament in June 2009 would have mandated. And they had the vigorous backing of the US Agency for International Development and the US Embassy when they took that stand.

http://www.thenation.com/article/161057/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day

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U.S. job quality is in trouble [View all] rfranklin Feb 2012 OP

du rec. nt xchrom Feb 2012 #1

The 1% wont be happy until ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2012 #2

Better yet, if they could bring wages in line with other Western Hemisphere countries....like Haiti rfranklin Feb 2012 #3

And they had the vigorous backing of the US Agency for International Development and the US Embassy" ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2012 #4

Leveling the playing field CAPHAVOC Feb 2012 #7

US job quality has been in trouble for a while now. Brigid Feb 2012 #5

That's why the unemployment numbers don't tell the whole story Ron Obvious Feb 2012 #6

For years, I think white collar workers thought "COMPETE!" only applied to blue collar workers. Romulox Feb 2012 #8

why do you have it in for white collar workers? flexnor Feb 2012 #9

Wages have been stagnate for blue collars workers for 30 years. This is just catch up. Romulox Feb 2012 #10

'We've been told for 30 years that white collar jobs would replace the blue collar jobs' flexnor Feb 2012 #11

As a white collar worker, I heard it plenty of times from my companions. Zalatix Feb 2012 #12

well there is some truth to that, and look where it got them flexnor Feb 2012 #13

Yup, a rising tide lifts all yachts. Zalatix Feb 2012 #14

the managerial/professional salaried 'exempt' classification is the biggest screw job of all flexnor Feb 2012 #15