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bluegreen17) wrote2003-08-31 07:14 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2003-08-31 07:14 pm
mr./ms. ceo,can you spare a home?
what would motivate employers to pay better wages?
Labor Day 2003: Nothing to Celebrate
By Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet
August 28, 2003
If ever there was a Labor Day for American workers to celebrate, this sure isn't the one. It's now 30 years since the end of the "golden era" for American labor, which by most accounting ended in 1973. Over the past 30 years the productivity of the people whose brain and muscle creates the wealth of the world's richest nation has grown by 66 percent. But the wage of the typical employee ? the median wage ? has grown by only 7 percent.
the article
oh,yeah,happy labor day. i hope i get 50c this year and not just 25c for my yearly raise. i could really use that $15 more a week,rather than a mere $5.
Labor Day 2003: Nothing to Celebrate
By Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet
August 28, 2003
If ever there was a Labor Day for American workers to celebrate, this sure isn't the one. It's now 30 years since the end of the "golden era" for American labor, which by most accounting ended in 1973. Over the past 30 years the productivity of the people whose brain and muscle creates the wealth of the world's richest nation has grown by 66 percent. But the wage of the typical employee ? the median wage ? has grown by only 7 percent.
the article
oh,yeah,happy labor day. i hope i get 50c this year and not just 25c for my yearly raise. i could really use that $15 more a week,rather than a mere $5.