Comments on: Labor Day

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 20:24:06 +0000

Costco is one of the few major companies that has figured out that being fair with employees is good for business.

I’m really tired of ignorant people being taken seriously when they say things like raising the minimum wage will cost jobs. If you need it done, you pay the price. If you don’t need it done, it doesn’t matter what it costs.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 05:19:46 +0000

Nail. Head. Wham!

While I was a member of AFM Local 65-699, I seldom if ever had trouble getting paid for gigs I played, mostly because those who hired me didn’t want trouble with the Local the next time they needed to hire musicians for one of their events. I’m retired-in-good-standing now, so this does not directly affect me, but I don’t want to think what would happen to today’s jobbing musicians if those who hire them take a notion not to pay them in a timely fashion for work done. The concept that those who employ can successfully make a buck without paying those who produce the product… in this case, a competent (and presumably enjoyable) performance of a predetermined amount of music… is utter folly. How did we get to this point? Isn’t it obvious that everyone wins or everyone loses?

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 03:47:12 +0000

Amen on your last paragraph. American workers are still the hardest working most productive in the entire world, on an output per worker basis. Anybody who blames workers for the failures of American businesses simply isn’t acting based on facts. I can’t think of a single American business that has failed because the workers weren’t willing to work hard and get things done. Every one of them failed because the managers made bad decisions that ended up torpedoing the business.