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From: landolt@yunexus.UUCP (Paul Landolt)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Union bashing
Message-ID: <5268@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 89 14:49:44 GMT
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In article <50024@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>In article <2566C3EA.16178@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
>>We will not have to wait too many more years before such
>>workers will be among the best paid people in society.  
>
>Nonsense!  In not too long, we'll have "equal pay for comparable work"
>laws, and the wage police will roll back their wages.  :-)
>
>After all, a subway ticket collector does comparable work to a secretary,
>right?
>-- 
>Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
Let me ask you a question Brad.

If being a Secretary and being a collector both pay 19Kpa (example), which
job would you rather take? Me, well, I'll take the secretary.

However, if being a collector meant getting paid, say 25K pa, then I would
take the collector.

In a union situation, what a person gets paid is not nessesarily what the
person is worth but what the job is worth.  The employer must make it
worth the person's while to take a job.  A smelly, boring, monotonous
job tends to be made more attractive by a high wage.

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