tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912833783359356343.post1784498436547289764..comments2023-11-02T06:44:25.146-05:00Comments on Molly's Middle America: Oakland Bay Bridge: Chinese Paid $12 a DayMiddle Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11441441493867436577noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912833783359356343.post-18559881665913344122011-06-30T11:20:27.699-05:002011-06-30T11:20:27.699-05:00This is what capitalism gets you. You charge more...This is what capitalism gets you. You charge more and we will ask for more pay. We get paid more and they will charge more. Now our pay is to high and they look to China. America is the land of the free. Free to choose to do business with whom you wish. Do a little research into America and you'll get upset for sure. In the mean time check out the welders and pipe fitters unions requiring $50+ dollars an hour per employee to stand around staring at the job waiting for the foreman to tell them to do it. True story, my brother stood for 8 hours staring at the task while other more senior union workers wouldn't allow or do themselves the task until told. From that, I hope china gets our welding and pipe fitting jobs. We don't deserve them!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912833783359356343.post-47728952841896563492011-06-28T15:20:47.502-05:002011-06-28T15:20:47.502-05:00Hi Anonymous.. Thanks for reading my blog! Yes, t...Hi Anonymous.. Thanks for reading my blog! Yes, this is appalling, and that's why I added it to my blog. I wrote a few months back about Chinese workers making iPods also in slave labor conditions. <br /><br />I don't know why we as a country are so cavalier towards the issues of international labor (and the ramifications for workers in developed countries) that there isn't more outrage and more protests about this. And this is especially egregious because it is a government project! Why is this legal? <br /><br />From reading the article, it appears that parts of the bridge were assembled in China and then shipped over here in pieces... quite large pieces, of course.<br /><br />Thanks again!Middle Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441441493867436577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912833783359356343.post-39607997360030138382011-06-28T15:07:33.714-05:002011-06-28T15:07:33.714-05:00I don't know who you are, but thanks for putti...I don't know who you are, but thanks for putting this out there. I saw the little bitty blurb in the Times and was appalled. I am uncertain if the folks finishing the bridge are here, in the US, or the whole thing was shipped in. Either way, yes, we're using slave labor. This is HUGE news.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com