Comments on: Uncertainty Hurts Montana’s Job Creators
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By redhawk on 08-09-12 @ 2:55 pm
Uncertainty has hurt Montana workers for years. When employers can gang up and set low wagerates, force you to work overtime without paying overtime wages, work you part time for years so
they don’t have to provide benefits, fire at random, and then treat the workforce like ‘just
another monkey off the street’ no wonder our children flee from Montana in droves. Most of
Montana’s workers do not belong to unions, so why isn’t the economy booming?! Giving the ‘Bush’
tax breaks to wealthy corporations has not led to more jobs, even though the cuts were passed
years ago. Workers need to be able to have some leverage to bargain with employers, otherwise
we wind up with workers that are paid like serfs, who can’t afford to buy the products they
make, slowing the economy ever further. Montana has an incredibly high poverty rate, and
notoriously low wages, already.
By HP on 08-10-12 @ 11:16 am
When I started reading this article I thought it could be informative. Instead it turns out to be a republican rant against Testor. Then I read the first comment which appears to be a democratic rant for unions. It’s sad that every comment
made is not for honesty or compromise but instead only for votes
Since both sides are owned by the same money why don’t they just flip a coin to select our next overlords. It would
be a lot more honest
By redhawk on 08-10-12 @ 5:21 pm
So accurate comment on Flathead working conditions must make me a Democrat?! No, I’m disgustedwith both parties. When the only options to vote for are ‘bad and bad’ it makes me wonder
whether the conspiracy theorists might be right after all! As Hankie noted, it’s amazing that
someone who benefits mightily from government handouts should be telling us that the goverment
making a rule to help workers bargain with employers who won’t pay a decent wage is a bad thing…
By ICallB.S. on 08-10-12 @ 10:51 pm
I don’t understand why businesses haven’t flocked to the Flathead. With a readily available workforce of thousands of unemployed drones who are used to incredibly low wages, you’d
think they would be arriving in droves to treat us like the third rate economy that we are…or
maybe they are just afraid of the man-eating, flesh-ripping wolves overunning the area..
By redhawk on 08-11-12 @ 11:53 am
Semitool, Walmart and Teletech ring a bell BS? They brag that they can pay lower wages forbetter employees here.
By MontanaTrace on 08-13-12 @ 10:10 am
The state tax structure causes businesses to look outside of Montana.
By hotfishmt on 08-14-12 @ 1:58 pm
The simple facts are….always going to be slow job wise in Montana. This is nothing new at all, and unless you have been in a cave for 30 years….same ole same old. We will never be a top
location for new jobs….too darn far from the “so called center”. Just look at the new large
factories…..BMW, KIA, and other….mid South, large population & access to markets.
The only way Montana will get ahead…is to SELL…all the Huckleberries & Coal to
outsiders…..Hucks are here and the last I heard last week…..in Spokane bringing $100 a gallon.0
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