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Honeycombe8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 12:58 PM
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8. I'd say that right now, we need the jobs. Now is not the time to try to enforce workers' rights to
the nth degree. Enforce workers' rights, yes. But $8/hr and 12 vacation days isn't what I'd call slave labor.

Should this be fixed in the future? Definitely, yes. But right now, we need the jobs.

I bet if you ask any of the people working there, they'd say they'd rather have the job than not have the job, and they'll wait to get better terms, when the economy is better.

My employer has taken advantage of the bad economy. All the companies have, it seems. And employees take advantage of a good economy by negotiating higher salaries, when workers are in demand. It's the way of the world.

I do know this, though: the worm always turns.
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