[Flame Of Liberty]

Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

Now this is interesting. Should all workers be paid market value? Teacher with 15 years experience, on average, in Canada, will make $55,000 vs $45,000 in the United States. The market suggests that teachers should make much less than they make here. But I think the responsibility that they have dictates that they are worth more than market value, and that by having that higher salary it would attract a higher quality of students to the job.

What if you are working for a company that is making billions in profit. Shouldn't the workers there, that are doing the actual work of the company, be entitled to some of that money? If they are doing so much better than the competition because of the efforts of the people working there, do they not deserve a higher wage?

If a union is demanding a higher wage from a company that is near bankruptcy, then that is foolhardy. But what we are seeing in general is that companies are making HUGE profits, stocks are WAY up and yet the middle class is shrinking as those profits go to the very few at the top of the companies while salaries for workers is dropping.