Wage Competition Quotes

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.

Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.

Plenty of people must also cause cheapness in wages, which cause cheapness in manufacture.

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

By mandating equal pay, the government erases the competitive advantage of those people who are willing to take less pay. In addition, employers are less willing to hire employees who they believe could subject them to increased liability.

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

The American people want to make sure that the rules of the game are fair. And what that means is that if you look at surveys around Americans' attitudes on trade, the majority of the American people still support trade. But they're concerned about whether or not trade is fair, and whether we get the same access to other countries' markets that they have with us. Is there just a race to the bottom when it comes to wages, and so forth.

Workers in different countries can easily be played off against each other.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!