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How about the shamefully low mining tax? Or the lowest-in-the-country gaming tax? Considering the billions of dollars these industries pull in while using the state's resources, they are far from paying their fair share.
Key words: skilled, educated labor. The casinos prefer employees that aren't. Not only are they less expensive, but they don't/can't do critical thinking so it's easier to treat them as poorly as they do while telling them how they're valued. As long as we continue to kowtow to gaming, we will never be competitive. Oh, and the over-the-top corruption in both business and government doesn't help either.
Beautiful. Republicans blaming labor. Who would have thunk it?
Labor is a small piece of the cost of a car. How about executive compensation? Everyone from Level 8 (2nd level supervisor) and up gets a company car with gas and repairs paid for. And for 6-8 weeks every year, they gave thousands of employees new model year company vehicles (with free gas) to drive for a week. Wanna bet how many of them made that 600 mile round-trip to Chicago for the weekend?
How about the go-with-the-flow management with umpteen levels of approval required to get anything done? The way you got moved up at GM was by not making waves.
(I used to work in EDS management at GM in Detroit. If you recall, GM bought EDS from Ross Perot and was a wholly owned subsidiary with people embedded at every GM location across the globe. When you manage IT systems, you come to intimately know a company's business model and business processes. I worked directly with high level management and did stints at Cadillac, Chevrolet, and corporate so I have first-hand knowledge of their vehicle engineering, manufacturing engineering, sales, service, marketing, and headquarters support functions.)
Gotta love the term "win".
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jfnance32,
I've read many of your posts and all I can do is shake my head and pray for you. What a miserable, unhappy person you must be.