“I keep asking what the caliber of the gun held to their heads when they applied for the jobs and then signed the employment agreement.”
Once upon a time, someone with limited skills and education could get a decent manufacturing job with good pay and bennies. Alas, most of those jobs are gone from the Fruited Plain (thanks to offshoring and “free trade” agreements) so all that’s left are low-paying service jobs with lousy benefits. That is the “bazooka” that forced these workers to take these jobs.
Those manufacturing jobs are gone because of union greed.
>>Once upon a time, someone with limited skills and education could get a decent manufacturing job with good pay and bennies. Alas, most of those jobs are gone from the Fruited Plain (thanks to offshoring and “free trade” agreements) so all that’s left are low-paying service jobs with lousy benefits. That is the “bazooka” that forced these workers to take these jobs<<
Straw man.
You can only afford an apartment near an airport, so move in and then tell them to move the airport.
Those jobs have been gone for over a generation. Even when I was a kid we had moved to a service economy. You can no more hold back globalization that you can stop the ocean tide with your hand.
There is a solution for those with limited skills and education: GET skills and education. And don’t whine “it’s too hard!” My mom got an AA degree at night with 7 kids at home!
Again, here in the Fruited Plain, we have things called “contracts.” They are based on a mutual agreement. If you don’t like the terms, don’t sign the agreement. Don’t sign and then whine and blubber because you don’t like what you signed. And CERTAINLY don’t put other people out because you are such a crybaby.
These folks should be fired wholesale (or retail, either way).
And off shoring didn’t have anything to do with the myriad of government agencies making business too expensive if not downright impossible in some locales, right?
It’s more like the bazooka was pointed by the union at those factory jobs, demanding they be paid more than they were worth—until the factories shut down and went out of business.
Walmart pays at a level reflective of the employee contributions and the competitive labor market. Those with the ability to upgrade their skills ought to do so—if only because we’re letting in so many unskilled immigrants looking for work every year.
No, it's thanks to unions, trial lawyers, the EPA, OSHA, and a few million other people that made it impossible to operate in the US. Blame the right people.
Service jobs have always been low paying with lousy/if any benefits. Nothing's changed....
If anything has changed it's the unrealistic expectation that these jobs should be high paying with good benefits.......
And you can thank unions for the offshoring. Unions have driven manufacturing out of our country.
Then these losers can get off their lazy butts, get trained and find better employment, oh that’s right, America has talent that MUST be watched, right? Or ballgames, mindless sitcoms, or there’s always PLENTY of drugs and booze to scarf up! Are you sure you`re on the right site, there teffy?
Once upon a time, someone with limited skills still had skills and a work ethic. And we still had a government that didn't make unemployment a lucrative alternative. And, we didn't have government regulations that made it extremely difficult to run a manufacturing operation in this country. And, of course, we didn't have labor unions that were nothing but fronts for the fund-raising branch of the communist/democrat party.