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[quote user="Greg H."][quote user="BRAKIE"] Chuck said: Most Americans today wouldn't put up with the conditions found in overseas/3rd world factories.Absolutely! Americans want a comfortable living as well from their employer.Nobody can live comfortably on minimum wage @ 5.85 /hr thats why respectable employers pay their employees far above the minimum wage with benefits while sweat shops pay minimum wage with poor working conditions and no employee benefits and these companies suffer a high turnover in employees.[/quote]You have touched on something that has bothered me for some time. The myth of minimum wage.Has anyone else noticed that when ever minimum wage goes up, the local cost of living goes up, and with in 3-4 months of the minium wage increase, it was as if there was no increase at all?  [/quote]With all their wisdom our government has changed the workplace of Australia, the  system is signing workplace agreements, no sick pay, no paid holiday pay, no penalty rates, work weekends at the same rate as weekdays etc etc, we have been told we need to change the system to compete with Asia, I would like to know at what?, most of our manufacturing has gone offshore, we are now pretty much a Banana Republic, many employed in the hospitality trade to cater for the Asian workers when they come here for a 7 day holiday.Same set up as the USA, pay rises vanish like a puff of smoke, food costs soar, houses are to expensive for people to buy, interest rates rising and people losing their homes etc etc, only a matter of time and we will have our own sweat shops and folks working for a bowl of rice, life the way we had it is becoming a thing of the past.
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