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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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www.threeshoes.co.uk
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On 7 Dec 2005, at 15:53, Bill Pearce wrote:
> Some lower salaries are coming up, due to competition. Here, fast food
> resturants may have to pay over $10/hr. to get people to work there.
A bit higher than UK, I think.
>
> Remember, though, you have greater benefits. The seemingly well
> paid worker
> at McDonalds or WalMart probably gets no medical insurance,
> retirement from
> Social Security only (not enough to live comfortably), and little
> time off.
>
> And, in general as reported in US media recently, we work quite a
> few more
> hours and take less vacations than you. American productivity is
> now among
> the highest in the world, but not because of any special thing
> about the
> workers other than a willingness to work longer hours and take less
> time
> off.
>
> A year or so ago, the local paper sent a reporter and photographer to
> several Boeing subcontractors in Europe. The factory worker in
> Itlay made
> about $12,500 per year, while the same worker in the US doing
> exactly the
> same job makes about $55,000!
>
> Having been to Italy I can assure you the Italian worker is happier.
I think you might be right Bill ...
Having lived in several different countries in the world, home seems
the best place to be; the money will just have to do eh? ;-)
Chris
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