Here's the hole in your argument: Now that "A Co" is paying higher wages, it must raise prices or subsidize the higher pay with other stores. Which means that:
1.) Now other businesses can compete with A Co because their costs are equal or less than A co, or 2.) Other businesses compete with A Co by offering better service due to their more highly paid, but better, workforce, or 3.) Other towns now pay higher prices or their wages drop because A Co is subsidizing Happy Town. You left out a couple of other possibilities. 4.) Pay high level executives only 10 or 15 times the average workers wage instead of 100 to 200 times. 5.) Pay shareholders less. The basic assumption of your 3 points was that Company A was in such fierce competition that they can only charge a bit more then the cost of manufuacure of the product. That is not always the case. If a company is in the position to minimize worker wages due to a surplus of workers and still maximize the price of their product due to other factors, I have little problem with workers collectivily demanding a larger share of the pie. What I thing is wrong is that many unions have become larger business then the companyies their workers are part of. This allows the bullying. It seems that sometimes a worker needs an union to protect them from these unions. -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning Confidentiality Notice: This message including any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete any copies of this message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:189048 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
