Greg Hennessy wrote:

In Germany's case the reason for failure is not the social policy.


Au contraire. when it costs 45 quid/hour to employ a worker at Volkswagen,
its social policy.

Dream on or head off and work for them if you do believe that urban
legend. €15.- to €20.- gross is more like it.

That was 15 years ago,

Instead of using the new supply of cheap labour handed to it for free,
German pols unified at the wrong exchange rate and paid for them to sit at
home on their Arsch.

Instead of encouraging labour mobility, they took active measures to
prevent it.

The eastern folk still have not adapted to "free market" an its labour
requirements. That's their problem.

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:56:20 +0100, Guy Perry wrote:

Greg Hennessy wrote:

In Germany's case the reason for failure is not the social policy.


Au contraire. when it costs 45 quid/hour to employ a worker at Volkswagen,
its social policy.

Dream on or head off and work for them if you do believe that urban
legend. €15.- to €20.- gross is more like it.


http://businessweek.com/magazine/con...6156_mz037.htm

At GM-Opel's Bochum and Russelsheim plants, workers earn $41 an hour, or
33% more than auto workers in France and other European countries.

IG-Metal ensures that VW will be in the same ball park.

Employer payroll taxation will add at least 50% to the above.


http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news...&refer=germany


"At 27.33 euros an hour on average this year, German labor costs are the
most costly in the 25-member European Union, according to the German
Federal Statistics Office Web site. Hourly labor costs are 20.15 euros in
France and 18.72 euros in the U.K. "


That's the German average and when the cost of employing someone is
factored in, its social policy.



The eastern folk still have not adapted to "free market" an its labour
requirements. That's their problem.

That's because their govt gave them the option of sitting at home idle.


greg


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