[Oceander]

"They're paying these workers a lot more than they're paying their employees," Nelson said. "It's kind of sad."

Actually, that's utterly false, and this Nelson is either an utter idiot, or a liar to make this statement. If you want to compare costs, you have to take into account all costs incurred, or which Cooper Tire is obligated to incur; when that is done, it becomes painfully obvious that the temporary workers - for whom Cooper Tire is not obligated to provide all sorts of expensive, uneconomic benefits - are substantially cheaper than the union parasites they've just evicted.

[cuban leaf]

—it becomes painfully obvious that the temporary workers - for whom Cooper Tire is not obligated to provide all sorts of expensive, uneconomic benefits - are substantially cheaper than the union parasites they’ve just evicted.—

This.

I’ve been in Information Technology since 1983. Twelve years of it as a contractor. I always made more contracting, but I was paid a strict hourly rate. And the full billing rate was the same or less than the employees cost “per hour”. In one case I made, in hourly wages, more than three times what the employees were making in raw hourly wages.