2011-01-17, 10:33 PM
They need to give tax breaks to companies that choose to have a work force in America, pay a % over the minimum wage, buy and sell to the local economy, and provide benefits to those employee (even if minimal only medical and dental). IF they did this not only would it increase salaries and wages, but it would spark more interest in wanting companies to move back to America as well. They also need to increase taxes on companies using international manufacturing, international workforces that do not contribute to the local economy excluding imported goods, and companies that choose to stay at the minimum wage and a certain % over it.
As far as retirees go... 401Ks need to be privatizes to a point. Companies could invest not only their workers 401Ks in Mutual Funds but in the company's own stock shares as well. Seriously, this is not only financially responsible but a moral booster as well. Honestly, if you were given a stock option in the company would you feel better about working there?
And lastly, they need to disband unions. This isn't the early 20th century anymore where workers aren't protected by local, state, and federal laws. Unions now are more or less an excuse of what they were originally supposed to do which was protect worker's right. Now by comparison, they serve only to bleed companies dry and force them to pay wages that are not only unnecessarily high, but also pay for people who have already retired from the company as well. You think I'm wrong, look at GM's situation with the UAW and the retiree's GM is forced to support.
As far as retirees go... 401Ks need to be privatizes to a point. Companies could invest not only their workers 401Ks in Mutual Funds but in the company's own stock shares as well. Seriously, this is not only financially responsible but a moral booster as well. Honestly, if you were given a stock option in the company would you feel better about working there?
And lastly, they need to disband unions. This isn't the early 20th century anymore where workers aren't protected by local, state, and federal laws. Unions now are more or less an excuse of what they were originally supposed to do which was protect worker's right. Now by comparison, they serve only to bleed companies dry and force them to pay wages that are not only unnecessarily high, but also pay for people who have already retired from the company as well. You think I'm wrong, look at GM's situation with the UAW and the retiree's GM is forced to support.