U.S. job quality is in trouble

[flexnor]

9. why do you have it in for white collar workers?

first of all, with the change of dress codes over the last 15 years, and offices becoming cramped 'bull pens', the distinction between white and blue collar has been blurred if not eliminated in most cases. and the working conditions that led to unions has been visited on the formerly 'white collar' workers (speedups, scabs, and any of a million things that translate to working more for less compensation)

maybe you once worked(or still do) in a place where the white collar workers had/have an attitude worthy of contempt, (i know i've had contempt toward a white collar worker, even while wearing one myself, so i do 'get it' somewhat)

but most white collar workers understand/undestood, that as go the 'blue collar' jobs, so go the 'white collar jobs'. Nobody had to explain to me, that in the company I worked for, that if they closed any of the plants, the office jobs in that plant would go too.

And even if someone did work in a company that had few blue collar workers, those white collar workers who lost their jobs when plants closed would be on the job market, along with former blue collar workers who retrained for white collar, even if it were a tiny percent.

a lot of white collar workers (myself in particular) have always understood the basic labor economics of this (and yes, every car i've ever owned has been a GM or a Ford)