How come conservatives are trying to dictate to business

Yes indeed. $16 a day.

Is that what Republicans would call a "lavish wage" ?


Where does it end ? American workers making $1 an hour and living in cardboard boxes under an overpass ? Is that what the almight right wingers are striving for ?

The race to the bottom.....sponsored and brought to you, the American worker, by your local Republican leaders.

$16 is hardly a lavish wage. DonDiego supposes the wages paid to Mexican autoworkers are not significantly influenced by American politicians of both the Republican and Democrat variety. Mexican politicians have constituents too.

DonDiego presents the news of the world not to support any position, just to inform the reader about conditions in the US's Neighbor-to-the-South. Such conditions can be expected to influence future international corporate decisions, . . . as they already have.
It seems Volkswagen has been quite beneficent in locating a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee in exchange for a $5000-tax-break for each citizen which they employ.

A happy and prosperous future is not guaranteed. Actually it never has been.

$16 is certainly not a lavish wage. I do believe, however, that each able bodied individual should be responsible for himself. That includes providing his employer enough value that management is willing to pay him $16 an hour or more instead of losing the value that the employee brings the company.

Unions don't allow for such discretionary company management, however.

Speaking of labor law criminals: Apple, Google, Pixar, etc. likely conspired to depress wages, impacting thousands of workers and potentially costing their own workers billions of dollars. Corporate crime is much more prevalent than labor union crime, and it ain't even close.

Needless to say, when corporations violate labor laws, no one goes to prison.