Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pyuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxc!chris From: chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: FAIR PAY FOR EQUAL WORK Message-ID: <621@pyuxc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 09:23:33 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxc.621 Posted: Fri Mar 1 09:23:33 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 04:55:39 EST References: <143@cylixd.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 12 In a way, it's very hard to see why equal pay for equal work is so controversial, since it's so logical. So what's the real problem? Employers can't afford it, prices would go sky-high, etc.? TOUGH. This economy was built on the under- (or un-)paid labor of blacks, women, newly arrived immigrants, etc. Complaints about higher prices as a result of equal pay are therefore indefensible. If our capitalist economy is truly the marvel it's supposed to be, an example for the rest of the world to follow, then it cannot allow such inequalities to remain the status quo. I'll be holding a campaign/pep rally at 4:00 in the park.