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Originally Posted by Uzzy
I worked in fast food (Wendy's) for 4 1/2 years. I also worked in housekeeping at a hospital for two summers. I currently work in a factory, but not as a line worker, I'm an engineer. I do not begrudge people making a fair wage, but I do not believe that $30+/hr is a fair wage for the work they do. They should not be making $50-$90 thousand dollars per year for the work that the majority of them do. It is truely and honestly minimum wage work for the most part. How is it not? What about the jobs commands more than $8-15/hr, except for the fact that the people doing them want to make more money so that they do not need to go and better themselves to get higher paying non-factoy type jobs?
I also think the cost of post-secondary school education is too high in both Canada and the US and it is out of reach of too many people. But on the other hand, I see people throwing their parents money away at school all the time. A friend of mine has been going to college since 2001 and has only taken one year off in that time. He has yet to earn a degree or diploma in anyhting.
Call me crazy, but I don't think someone should be paid extra for back breaking work that requires no skill. I think they should do whatever they can to do either develop skills and move away from there that way, or find another job that requires no skill but is easier on the body. These types of jobs were never intended to be carreers, just a way of making money until something good came along.
And don't bother going from the automotive line to fast food .The only difference between fast food and automotive assembly line is the fast and slow periods happen hourly instead of yearly and they pay minimum wage. Other than that, the work is almost identical.
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Excellent point! Just becuase a person has "back breaking work" does not mean that they should get paid more. If that were the case, I should of been getting paid $150,000 a year for moving engines, gas tanks, etc. in a hot warehouse for two years when I was a teenager. Now my IT job makes me "break my mind" every day. The only difference is that I can EASILY take the majority of factory line jobs but I seriously doubt that a factory line worker could do my line of work without years of training and experience. That is why I am worth more and the majority of UAW workers are worth less.