Christoph Reuss wrote:
>
> Arthur Cordell wrote:
> > Airline alliances lead to pilots in foreign carriers getting *higher*
> > salaries. So going global need not be a race to the bottom, it can mean
> > harmonizing upward.
>
> I think this is a misinterpretation. Note that this is only about *pilots*.
> It is nothing new that mergers lead to higher salaries in the *top* seats,
> i.e. top management and rare specialists (such as pilots), BUT this can
> hardly be called "harmonizing upward", because it goes at the expense of
> the "lower" employees' salaries. Actually, the non-pilots (ground personnel
> etc.) in Germany have vehemently protested *against* the pilot strike !
> The WSJ article omitted this, to make the misleading point that "lower"
> employees would benefit too. It ain't so. FG and mergers are about
> *increasing* the wage *gap*, *not* about "harmonizing upward" !
>
> Chris
I concur 100%.
To those who have much more shall be given,
and from those who have little what little they have shall be taken away
(by outsourcing, etc.).
We know that what seems to be disappearing from the First World are good jobs
for
ordinary people. The people often even get to keep doing the work, after first
being laid off from the job at $x per hour, and then being rehired
to do the same work for $(x/2) per hour and a speeded-up production rate.
Where the captains of industry show their sagacity is in anticipating
which icebergs are tougher than the hulls of their barques and
which are not, i.e., sometimes "paying off" stubbornly entrenched
unions instead of running into them head-on in the process
of dis-integrating (deconstructing?) the work force. These executives know that
"ars long vita brevis": The workers who are able to defend their
entitlements will soon enough all die, and then these leaders anticipate
smooth sailing under the protection of what I recently heard
called: "The Invisible Handout".
Happy the American unionized assembly line worker who
has already retired on full Union benefits, and, even better,
has already died at very old age!
+\brad mccormick
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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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