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your post proves my point. You may or may not be union but you do not understand business. Companies have learned to produce more with less it just a fact. What Hoot was talking about is total what a company spends on an employee. Business plans allow for X amount of money for expenses, if they pay more in taxes or benefits wages will be lower or prices will be higher. The point is
it has all got to balance somewhere. Now that profits have improved I believe hiring will slowly start to increase, at least I hope so.

in the private sector if you are not union you take what they give you if you are union you get to negotiate your wage and benefits instead of the corporations getting 75% of the pie in a union they get 50% that's why they don't like a third party