biggest job loser / wage reducer

[ulysses]

Poll question: biggest job loser / wage reducer

[hippiechick]

1. CEO compensation packages

... which reward execs for cutting the workforce by any means necessary.

[ulysses]

2. true!

[ulysses]

3. anyone care to offer a rationale?

[DBoon]

4. Union busting

Starting with Reagan

[baldguy]

8. Started with Hoover

[elehhhhna]

5. Exempt employees who aren't really exempt.

[demosincebirth]

6. Lack of union representation.

When unions prevail, wages rise.

[Jayhawk Lib]

7. Productivity!

Automation is replacing the amount of people to do a certain job. It is called productivity. It allows 1 person to do the job that used to take several to do. It eliminates a lot of boring menial jobs but increases the need in other areas to build and maintain the automated machines.

The hiring of illegal immigrants has very little affect on the loss of jobs. The jobs that the illegals are doing is really the jobs that immigrants have been doing all along for the last 10 to 15 years or longer. Not many of us want to be motel maids, packing plant workers, farm workers, and numerous other jobs that are nasty back breaking jobs.

NAFTA also may be costing us some jobs. Even before NAFTA there were some companies that were going abroad.

All in all we are all guilty of wanting to get more for our hard earned money. The manufacturers of the products that go off shore are in the same boat as we are.

Most people when given a choice between a foreign made good and an American made good, both of equal quality will go for the one that is the cheapest. In that case I guess those that go for the cheaper product are just as greedy as the manufacturers that go off shore for cheaper labor. Some people out of necessity have to buy the cheaper product.