Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!nrh
From: nrh@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Unions, onions, and things... The Sa - (nf)
Message-ID: <1322@inmet.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Apr-84 00:12:52 EST
Article-I.D.: inmet.1322
Posted: Tue Apr 24 00:12:52 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Apr-84 01:12:18 EST
Lines: 23

#R:ihuxp:-72500:inmet:3900113:000:952
inmet!nrh    Apr 22 14:11:00 1984

>***** inmet:net.flame / fortune!brower /  4:04 pm  Apr 20, 1984
>... Finally, United
>States steel plant owners discovered that they could no longer compete
>in the market for steel and put the blame on the unions for negotiating
>a living wage for their workers.  

Amazing!    To refer to a Union steelworker's salary as "a living wage".
My understanding (based on some stuff by Milton Friedman I can't find
right now) is that steelworkers are paid a pretty high wage -- above that of
most people in the US.  Calling it a "living wage" seems to imply that they're
just eking out an existence.   

How long do you expect people to pay extra for cars to support steelworkers that
make more than the car-buyers do?

For that matter, how long must we live with these  "voluntary" import 
limits on Japanese cars?  I'd *LIKE* to see Chrysler go down the tubes 
and I've no great fondness for any of the other American automakers.....

						- Nat Howard