If you screw the worker then he can’t afford to buy your products. A company’s goal should be to pay as high a wage a possible. To attract the best quality people as possible. Who will give your company the highest production possible.

Then those people can afford to pay top dollar for you product. The adverage wage, to the somewhat above adverage wage maker is about 90% of the economy. (The top 5% are millionairs the bottom 5% are nothing airs).

If you, as a company, can’t offer the people that work for you a wage that allows them to buy the product or service you offer.

OK, at least the dream of being able to afford at some point… That is the American dream. If everyone pays CostCo or WalMart wages then who will be able to buy at Vons?

Once WalMart is the big non union dick in town… Who will increase prices? Unless a “BallMart” comes along under-cutting Wal Mart’s pricing. BallMart can only afford to pay people $5.25 per hour.

If everyone that worked at Von’s @$14 an hour then had to work at WalMart @$9 then at BallMart @$5.25. You get the idea. If a company owners goal is to maximise profit by cutting wages or jobs then they are killing the economy. If the person you pay to tend you garden can’t support his/her family then they have no choice but to seek help.

Who has to provide that support? The federal goverment? You get the idea!

Payroll taxes
workers’ compensation insurance
liablity insurance, ie, property, auto, personal among other expenses.
The cost of goods,
Employee salary,
Loss due to shrinkage, etc.

I do agree that the employee should be compensated for work based on their job duties and cost of living, but employers must take into consideration the cost of doing business in the market for the services being provided, competition, and inflation.

Compensation to the employee for work performed should be based on their job description/responsibilities. You are being compensated to do a job, it is a contract between you and the employer. The results of the work being profit or lose should not be of concern to the employee.

If employees want to their salaries increased based on the company profits, then they should take a decrease in pay equal to the companies losses. If employees want health insurance paid by the employer, then they should be liable for paying their own payroll taxes, workers’ compensation and liability insurance. My responsibility to my employees are to compensate them for work done based on the labor market for the position they hold. My employees responsibilities is to perform the job. I already pay for workers’ compensation and additional liability insurance to run my business. Those are the requirements and responsibilities to my employees. If they want their own health insurance, then, they should pay for it. Does this mean that because the employee drives to work, I have to pay for their car note, fuel, and insurance.

Wake up employees of the USA, times are changing, employers now realize that we do not have to baby sit our employees. You do the job and get paid for it. Profits and losses are the employers business not the employees.

Note to Ralph’s grocery and Vons Corporation, do not kneel down to these outrageous and irrational demands. We already have enough expenses.