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Quote by: lsbskins1  I have a hard time understanding the twisted logic that goes on around here sometimes. First of all, if you can be fired for exercising your right to strike, it is not, then, a right. |
It isn't a right.
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It is like saying that you have freedom of speech as long as you accept the fact that you can be arrested for exercising that right.
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And yet the big government nanny state your leftist buddies have helped create does exactly that. Ever notice the police at protest rallies? Ever notice that the government (utterly contrary to the Constitution for which you have so much contempt) has come up with such infringements on free speech as requiring a permit to protest, creating "free speech zones," and the like? Excuse me? Why the hell should I have to get permission from the government to protest the government?
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Second, being uneducated, undereducated or stupid does not mean the more educated or better compensated have the right to pay you anything they damn well please. That argument is stupid on it's face.
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No, the reason they can pay you whatever they damn well please is because they're the employer and you're asking them for the job. Now, if you weren't quite so stupid, you'd negotiate with the rate of pay with the employer, keeping in mind, of course, that when there's a large number of people competing for the same job the employer is going to get pretty much what he wants. It's only when there's a considerable shortage of labor that the employees are more likely to get a higher wage.
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It makes no more logical or moral sense than arguing that you should be paid less as a doctor if you can't dunk a basketball.
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No, you're the one not making sense now.
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If I can do the job without the skill and the wage is unfair, the wage is unfair.
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The only "fair" wage is the one you agree to take. Life is unfair, get over it!
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Nobody is suggesting that unskilled labor be paid at the same rate as skilled labor.
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Oh really? Talk to those damned union rats in the auto plants. Working on an assembly line is unskilled labor and look at what the unions have extorted in wages out of the automobile manufacturers.
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What is being suggested is that striking is sometimes the only way to insure that compensation is rational and just.
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No, it's extortion and should be treated as such.