Title: United Airlines' Outsourcing Jobs to Company That Pays Near-Poverty Wages Is Shameful | HuffPost
Headings: United Airlines’ Outsourcing Jobs to Company That Pays Near-Poverty Wages Is Shameful
United Airlines’ Outsourcing Jobs to Company That Pays Near-Poverty Wages Is Shameful
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Content: In America we believe that you should have the opportunity to strike it rich. But you should not be allowed to do that by exploiting other people. You can make all the money you want so long as you pay your employees a living wage first. Over the last 30 years per capita productivity and per capita gross domestic product have both increased by almost 80 percent. If the benefits of that increase were widely distributed, most average Americans would be 80 percent better off today than they were 30 years ago. But instead average wages have stagnated — and most normal people are struggling just to keep up. That’s because almost all of that increase has been siphoned into the hands of the top 1 percent and out of the pockets of middle-class families. United’s outsourcing plan is one of the methods that has been used systematically by corporations and Wall Street banks to achieve this result. And it is exactly the kind of action that we must stop if we are to prevent America from becoming a society composed of a tiny number of wealthy semi-aristocrats and a massive number of workers who barely make enough to make ends meet. The victims of United’s outsourcing will not just be the employees and their families.