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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: tejek who wrote (45469)11/21/2008 7:19:46 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (3) of 149317
 
I know all that but heres the thing. A large union labor workforce whose per-worker costs average out to $70 an hour for labor is too much, anybody in business knows that. It doesn't matter that the individual doesn't see that much in cash, he might as well because it is money walking out the door.

Big tech companies out here hire IT staff as contractors for -I kid you not- $45 per hour with no benefits. Yes it sucks because this does not provide a stable quality of life for a head of household, but thats life in the big city. And I would argue that these mid level IT programmers are actually as highly skilled -or more- than detroit autoworkers.

To get $70 an hour at a big tech company as a stable full time contractor with no benefits is more of a management or analyst type position. Way above an assembly line worker.

Its just ridiculous to have an average worker cost at that level and it is not sustainable, at all.
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