Union: Carrier might have stayed if they took a paycut ($5.85hr)

[Donkees]

[oldandhappy]

1. Too bad workers need to eat!!

[Plucketeer]

2. And don't you KNOW

that many of those workers just ADORED Reagan when he was in office!

[Overseas]

3. Sad K&R.

[appalachiablue]

4. K&R. Rounding to $6 an hour, that comes to about $11,500 a year, pre tax.

$960 per month. If my figures are correct. Awful.

[Enthusiast]

5. Due to trade deals we are now engaged in a Race To The Bottom.

Thanks, politicians.

[JimDandy]

6. What was their wage after the pay cut of $5.85? n/t

[Donkees]

7. Approx. $23hr with benefits reduced to $5.85 and no benefits

[JimDandy]

8. Whoa!!! That's a starvation wage. Not even federal minimum wage.

Who do they think is going to buy their product after doing that?

[Donkees]

9. They plan to pay Mexican workers $1.50 - $3hr, with no worker safety or pollution standards

[Diremoon]

10. Carrier made damn sure that I will never buy their garbage ever again.

I have one of their HVAC in my house, but their emphasis is to be on cheap crap I at lease know enough to stay far away. Here is to hoping they fold in two years (give them time to sink a bunch of dough into their Mexican adventure first).

[JDPriestly]

11. Thanks to Bill and Hilllary Clinton for NAFTA which enables companies including Carrier

to hire workers who work for wages on which Americans cannot live or pay their rent and then import the junky products they make in Mexico into the US without tariffs.

Hurrah for the Clintons and their NAFTA beast that swallows American jobs.

Sarcasm. I hope everyone who voted for Hillary enjoys their $5.25 per hour wage when it becomes customary in the US.

[appalachiablue]

12. Obama and Hillary stated they would renogtiate NAFTA the last time I believe. Sure.

Race. to. the. Bottom. Go. USA.

[rurallib]

13. I doubt Carrier would have stayed even then

but that is their face saving: "Unions wouldn't work with us blah, blah, blah........"