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From: billp@azure.UUCP (Bill Pfeifer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Unemployment & the minimum wage
Message-ID: <37@azure.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 12:36:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  6 12:36:16 1984
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>	The point of the minimum wage is to reduce the cutthroat wage
>	competition, which does not benefit ANY worker.
BULL!
The point is that persons about to enter the workforce (like teenagers with no
experience) can do so only through union and federal jobs programs.

>	The unions that you like to rail against have also fought mightily
>	for a jobs program ...
What a coincidence! :-)

I once worked at a TV service shop, when someone applied for a job as a 
service technician.  This person had just finished a TV service course,
apparently had a good grasp of the theory, but had zero work experience.
We tried him out for 2 days, but it was obvious that his skill at that time
was worth much less than minimum wage.  If we had kept him, constantly losing
money, he probably would have gradually built up his experience.  In order to
recoup our losses, we would have had to pay him less than his worth for some
time after.  However, as soon as he could have found a better paying job
elsewhere, he would have left immediately, leaving us permanently with the loss.
The only way to makeup for these losses would have been to raise the repair
rates to the customers, but because of intense competition, this was not
possible.  So, sorry about that, but we don't have a job for you!

	Bill Pfeifer
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