Posted on 04/24/2018 3:52:57 AM PDT by spintreebob
Edited on 04/24/2018 8:15:03 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
HR = Trade Unions
They could hire all the people Westinghouse’s nuclear division has been laying off.
I can (hiccup) fly....I can fly a plane.
You are all overlooking the fact that this is a REGULATED UTILITY building the plant. The Public Service Commission determines how much of the costs incurred are allowed into the “rate base,” i.e., how much the owner is allowed to charge to the end customers. If a utility cannot charge its customers for the costs, the shareholders must pay. You can imagine how the shareholders frown on that.
This is what prevents the utility from paying higher, more competitive labor rates. It is a classic problem in a healthy, growing economy, with lots of demand for skilled labor. The regulators are always way behind the competitive sector in adjusting allowed costs — the adjustments occur in “rate cases” where the commission passes judgement on which costs are allowed to go into the rate base. Rate cases are discrete events that do not happen very often.
No; they aren’t being trafficked here as skilled labor - they are here for low-skill jobs and more importantly, to fill the empty housing, schools, and store aisles that are devoid of Americans in increasingly wide swaths of this country.
I’ll defer to your knowledge of the hiring particulars; when they want it enough, they’ll magically find the money.
Amazing isn’t it?
People who claim to be Capitalist and yet are baffled when people aren’t willing to work for crap wages. Kind of like maybe there is some sort of economic law at play here?
If they can’t get people, they’re not paying enough; black and white. If I am unwilling to pay for a guitar, a car, or a house, then I don’t get it.
There are plenty of people willing to work, but not for $10 or $20 an hour.
They are importing a replacement population for whom $10/hour is a big raise - and by idling real Americans, ensuring that they’ll literally go extinct.
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