Certain key words are, and should be red warning lights.
“Productivity”. Why is this *ever* mentioned to anybody who works for a living? Productivity is *not* their friend, but their enemy. It means getting more work out of employees for the same wage, or perhaps even lower wages.
“Productivity” means firing Americans and hiring foreigners on H1-B visas. Foreigners who will not get raises or promotions, will not accumulate seniority, and can be discarded like used bathroom tissue when no longer wanted.
“Productivity” also means importing illegal aliens to work sub-minimum wage jobs, or being paid under the table.
More than anything else, “productivity” feeds into “free markets”, that only seem to benefit foreign nations at our expense. And make multinational companies with zero loyalty to America lots of money at the expense of American companies.
Increasing productivity is actually the ONLY thing that increase a worker's wages.
If you can install 10 windshields a day and I can only install 7 a day, who do you think it going to make more money?
American workers are among the most productive on the planet because we have an enormous amount of capital goods behind each worker.
It is solely due to increasing productivity that we can free labor up for employment in heretofore non-existent lines of work.