Re: Sabbatical replacement and Dollars

[graham-engineering@juno.com]

Herb wrote:

> When I was in college studying economics, I was taught that market
> forces consist of two factors, supply and demand. But market forces
> consist of several additional factors that must also be taken into 
Herb Wrote:
> account.
> Two of the most important are government labor laws and union 
> activity.
>
> Laws and regulations by the government set salary scales for civil 
> service jobs and  minimum wages for private industry. Over the years,
> minimum wages have constantly been increased regardless of supply 
> and demand.
>
> Unions and labor organizations have been instrumental in raising the 
> salaries of garbage collectors, transportation workers, truck drivers, 
> and 
> high school teachers regardless of supply and demand.
>
> Meanwhile the highly skilled  tool and die makers of the country 
> refused
> to organize because they considered themselves "professionals" and 
> like
> college professors,  loved their work and  felt that it was beneath 
> them
> to organize into labor unions for higher salaries and benefits. As a 
> result, 
> the wages of unskilled labor soon outdistanced those of the tool and
> die makers.  Today, tool and die makers are becoming scarcer and 
> scarcer.
> When new ones are needed by industry, rather than offer increased
> wages to attract them,   we import them from overseas where wages 
> are even lower than they are here. Will the same thing happen to 
> the jobs of college physics professors in the USA?
>
> Herb Gottlieb from New York City
> (Where salaries of physics teachers are subject to "updated" market 
> forces)
>  

I do not know what herb thinks, but I do know that a lot of tool and die
makers are making money in excess of $75,000 a year.  For the mid-west
that is a good salary.  Second, tool and die makers are not being
imported
from overseas.  They are skilled labor and most underpaid people that
come from overseas are unskilled.  They would not and could not be able
to do the job that is required of a good tool and die maker.  I work
around
a few tool and die makers, and I have yet to see one from overseas.   

So, Herb you do not have to be unionize to get more money.  It is being 
skilled at what you do.  Yes it does help to be unionized. Case in point,

look at most electricians, most of them get paid well.  I do not know one

that has graduated from college.  I do not know one that could preform a
tool and die maker job.  I do not know one that could preform an
engineers
job.  This goes for college professors.  I had a lot of professors that
where leaders in the field that they taught.  But, they were horrible
teachers.  So, does this mean that they should get a large salary for 
teaching.  I don't think so.  Does this mean that they should get a 
large salary for work they do in the field.  Yes, they should, and most
of
them do get a good kick back from other sources for research.  

So, if your only goal in life is to accumulate wealth,  I suggest that 
you find a job that you are skilled in, or one that is unionized so that
you can force people to pay your extorsion money. 

I see that the Herb has little knowledge of how the rest of the world
works.  He just lives in his small world called New York.  This is just
a typical attitude of someone from out east.  They think that know it
all just because they live in a big city.

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