Comments for The Washington Post Confuses Supporters of Lower Pay for Auto Workers With Supporters of the Free Market at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.cepr.net Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:26:01 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-confuses-supporters-of-lower-pay-for-auto-workers-with-supporters-of-the-free-market#comment-1772 Those pushing the lower wages for autoworkers are just anti-union or are legislators from states that currently have auto transplants paying either sub-standard wages or looking for an excuse to cut wages. Dean Baker has documented the falseness of the seventy-five p;hr claim that many used as the foundation of their argument. - dg Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:54:48 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-confuses-supporters-of-lower-pay-for-auto-workers-with-supporters-of-the-free-market#comment-1723 Chrysler recently announced over 300 jobs. They received over 3000 applications. $14 plus benefits looks good to a lot of min wage workers. Without strong unions, all profits go to management and wages are a race to the bottom. Ten applications for every job opening. So much for the unemployed just being on vacation. - bakho Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:29:21 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-confuses-supporters-of-lower-pay-for-auto-workers-with-supporters-of-the-free-market#comment-1721 Why is it that "some people" want unionized workers to make less money? Why don't they want everyone who is not unionized to make more money? I understand jealousy, but salary is not beauty or an accident of birth. The same argument is raging right now in states over the wages and pensions of municipal and state employees. The question should not be why the salaries and benefits of government employees are higher than those who work in the private sector, but rather why those in the private sector are not being paid the salaries and benefits of government employees. - Queen of Sheba Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:15:33 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-confuses-supporters-of-lower-pay-for-auto-workers-with-supporters-of-the-free-market#comment-1718 The same pattern of cutting benefits for the young and newly hired is seen in public employee union outcomes like: http://www.observer.com/3887/paterson-reaches-union-deal-officially Some get "separation incentives", others have to work for less. No wonder unions are shrinking. - AndrewDover Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:10:12 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-confuses-supporters-of-lower-pay-for-auto-workers-with-supporters-of-the-free-market#comment-1717 Calling attention to pay disparities is a standard union-busting tactic, to foster jealousy among non-union workers (though I suppose the lower-tier workers are also UAW). But the article is not completely hostile to workers; towards the end it points out that "transplant" factories generally pay much more than $14/hr. It also claims that automakers were prepared to pay $28, but "the Obama administration" - meaning Tim Geithner? - insisted on the $14. Too bad they didn't insist on halving the profits of the Wall Street companies that were bailed out, or CEO pay. - skeptonomist Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:54:51 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-confuses-supporters-of-lower-pay-for-auto-workers-with-supporters-of-the-free-market#comment-1716 Should "and attribute an ideology" be "and not attribute an ideology"? - Billy O'Connor Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:45:41 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-post-confuses-supporters-of-lower-pay-for-auto-workers-with-supporters-of-the-free-market#comment-1715 As any Teabagger knows well, free trade for the US was established in the Declaration of Independence under an egalitarian equality clause: [quote]We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.[/quote] When evil forces of unions interfere with self-evident truths like free trade, they undermine the egalitarianism bestowed on mankind by the Creator. Men as corporations and corporations as men cannot possibly be equal in the face of satanic individualism and self interest pursuit of profit when forced to share gains with unions that also share none of the losses. Until union members understand that they don't have the same unalienable rights as doctors, lawyers and bankers to compete fiercely with each other, free markets will continue to wither and die as the grip of socialism sends the US down the road of serfdom. Stupid liberals. - izzatzo Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:35:15 +0100