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To the editor: Now, why are we the so-called richest nation in the
world? Then why are we letting our jobs go to nations that let big
companies pay their workers far less than we make? Is it because
those big companies are looking at larger profits over employee
loyalty? Or to say, if my company would make dolls, ball caps or
other terms we use every day, would you pay the price that I would
need to keep you and the other employees working? Maybe or maybe
not. This U.S. of A. has things, junk and other everyday terms not
only from China but from Mexico, Japan, Hong Kong, to name a few, so
that means what? Wal-Mart and other large companies can keep sending
our jobs overseas, where pennies on the dollar is cheaper than 10 to
20 dollars an hour you and I think we should be making. Who is to
say? Now IGA, since they moved just off the square, not even Kroger
can touch them.
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Remember one thing: Not all big companies make great employers
with insurance, health care and not to forget retirement. If you cut
at least half of each of those things that we worked so hard to get,
then they, the companies, make more profits for them -- not for us,
the true workers -- and if [you] check who is the richest company
around, it is now Wal-Mart. So why can't they pay a larger share of
employees' insurance and health care? At 1 billion-plus a year it
should be just pennies out of their pockets instead of three-fourths
of our paychecks.
Jann Allen Nash
(Posted Dec. 1, 2005)
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