robo60 wrote:My employer Caterpillar does the same thing today with a bunch of low pay scab outfits. My wages are frozen while I subsidize a fortune 50 corp. with my tax dollars. Ain't it great?
so, here's where I get more confused than normal...warning, you may not know that I am a libturd. Reasonable but still a libturd. Loved by many here, but still a libturd.
this has become the model for so many businesses. In a matter of just a couple of decades, appreciation, pensions, and generosity toward loyal long term employees has been determined to be a waste of money that robs upper management of obscene bonuses (even when they lose money). Incentives to stay with an employer has purposely been removed, they feel smarter replacing you with a lower paid rookie every few years, sometimes having you train your replacement!
Virtually no Americans have lifetime careers with the same company anymore, many because the company has made it that way. It's the new M.O. of the current crop of executives...human resources are considered the same as mechanical assets and cold hard number analysis is the basis for employment decisions.
Here's the confusion part...the most vulnerable, the lowest skilled, those in the most tenuous situations of jobs, healthcare insurance, basically everything 98.2% of stuff cbid members do not worry about (source: Victor's post somewhere talking about how most of us can afford to burn $10 cigars whenever we want), those same under or unemployed uninsured people like the denizens of the rust belt that won't be recovering soon...those people swept a multi billionaire and his posse into office. ..
