Charlie Averill: Taking Back Our Economy-Part 9 What Do They Really Mean?
What they say:
“We need labor market flexibility to run a profitable business.”
What they really mean:
* We want to use temporary employees instead of permanent employees; we want to contract the work out to other companies.
* We don’t want to pay overtime.
* We want to schedule employees at the last minute and on irregular shifts. And, we want to mandate overtime.
* We don’t want to pay health care or provide defined benefit pension plans.
* In short, we don’t want any binding commitments to our employees. We want to use them as we want, when we want, and pay them what we want.
* And, most importantly, we don’t want a union or the government interfering with our doing so.
I dont see what they are complaining about. Here in Indiana, where we are an “At will” state(read the disclaimer at the bottom of every job application) ; Then why do we have an unemployment insurance/compensation bureaucracy, and administrative /ajudication system for determining eligibility? that is a total contradiction.
Evrybody is at risk- I can quit for any reason, or no reason at all, as can the employer hire and fira at will( with the exception of those federal civil rights/and assorted other employment laws.
Not that I agree with it, just pointing out another contradiction in hoosier laws.
Instead, why not allow everybody to be paid as an independent contractor, and work as such? Pay me enough so I can pay my own taxes, social security, etc, or invest it instead, and earn interest/dividends?
When I’m “working for an Employer”, after all, I dont give a hot about him,nor his business. I’m just prostituting my labor for money, so I can live. If better offer comes up,(or if a cheaper laborer comes along- in the businessowneres case, thes its aadios, amigo.syanora? right?
just a thread for discussion.
It seems that theres a lot of Hoosiers who manage to qualify for unemployment /welfare checks, and milk them until the last day( while working for cash under the table) , and then theres lots of schmucks like me and others who never seem to get a dime back of all the money we pay into the tax system, then when we need it, we can never get any of it back.
I hope that someone took note of an article in the NY Times yesterday showing the workers in India who make manhole covers for NYC and other areas. The pictures showed the barefoot workers, no shirts, gloves, goggles or other safety apparel holding ladles full of molten metal. I guess this is the “labor-market flexibility” that our corporate masters dream about every night. This is the competition that working-class Americans are facing in the name of globalization. You got it so right, Charlie.