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Originally Posted by Locke
You're totally off base here. They're decent paying jobs alright, but they're unnatural, the barriers for entry, exit and competition are artificial. They pay well because they are artificially insulated from the market by the Government.
What education, expertise or experience does one require to sort and carry mail?
See the McExample above, those jobs are being liquidated, sure, why? Because they arent protected by a Governing body. Why is that? Because you cant.
If all McDonald's employees unionized McDonalds could simply fire them all and replace them. Sure, it'd suck for a bit as they had to train all of these new people but at the end of the day the core essence of that job remains the same: "Literally anyone can do it."
The barriers for entry and exit are non-existent. The only difference with Canada Post is that they've created artificial barriers.
If you do something that anyone can do then you are by definition replaceable and especially so if the demand for what you do is on a declining trend.
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They aren't insulated jobs, those workers make those amounts because they bargained for them and the company agreed to pay them that amount. Why did they agree to pay them that amount? Because based on their profits that those workers got them, they could afford to. It's such a ridiculous argument that because a job doesn't require a degree or education that it should therefore be low paying. Someone working at macdonalds probably work 5x harder then most people, and their employer likely makes more money off them in a day then some of the highest paying jobs out there. Why should they not be compensated fairly for that? Should the make the same as doctors? No, however they should earn enough to live off of, the same as construction labourers do, they don't have any degrees yet people accept that they make what they make because they accept that it is fair compensation for what is an important position to their employer. These companies need employees to make money, so they should fairly compensate them for their contribution.
Your comment on macdonalds firing all their employees if they unionized and simply retraining them, is not a valid argument since it would violate a number of labour laws. You can't simply fire your workers when they are unionized, otherwise all of these employers would have fired their "replaceable" employees years ago.
I also find that singling out certain employees as "replaceable" is a little bit ignorant, it doesn't matter what industry you are in, you are replaceable. Fact of the matter is, a lot of employees in jobs that require no education or credentials are less easily replaced since most people don't want to do those jobs.