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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Is that what his issue was? I thought he was suggesting that referring to "medians" is somehow deceptive, apart from the failure to talk about (more politically pleasing) means.
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Well now Ty, to be honest the chart being limited to the last 6 years is making a political point. I'm sure what the chart shows started 20, if not 30 years ago.
Airline unions are being forced to take pay cuts. Factory workers entering the jobs that do open are not being offered the prior juicy union wages. Even those people in $30 per hour union factory jobs are facing massive cuts. Delphi entered bankruptcy to be able to void its union contracts. Unskilled assembly line workers are being paid $30 per hour, and Delphi's competition is getting the same work for 3 or 4 bucks an hour in Mexico. It's not a matter of corporate greed, its survival.
In my mind it all started once American workers stopped "buying American." It started with cars- but once Claifornia electronics workers decided a Toyota was a good purchase it becomes inevitable that they will eventually be fucked themselves.
