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Well it is, because Europe is able to get their labor much cheaper, and those guys ain’t starving.
by ponker 6y ago
Well it is, because Europe is able to get their labor much cheaper, and those guys ain’t starving.
- dboreham 6y agoBut that needs "socialism".
- zrail 6y agoThose guys have socialized health care and government sponsored pensions.
- nicoburns 6y agoI wonder if tunnel working is dangerous enough that the healthcare costs become extra significant.
- 1123581321 6y agoThose healthcare costs would be covered from worker’s comp in the US (I am aware of the caveats here.)
- zrail 6y agoNot sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if life and disability insurance through the tunnel workers union is extraordinarily expensive.
- PeterisP 6y agoIt's paid out of the taxes on wages of laborers like these engineers working on tunnel construction; when you estimate the expenses for building a tunnel, that's included in the list price - it's just that in USA invoice that line might be labeled "union-agreed benefits" and in Switzerland invoice the same thing might be labeled "government-mandated social security tax" which covers things like "government sponsored" (i.e. taxpayer-paid) pensions.
- ponker 6y agoOf course that line item is massively larger in the US than in Switzerland because it has to line the pockets of union bosses, lawyers, negotiators, administrators, and health insurance companies.