“Pathetic quality”: RV dealers are fed up...

way2roll wrote:
You get what you pay for. This is applicable to employees as well. All relative though, you pay more for employees then you pay more for the end product.

Nope.

That is not how that works.

My now former company paid twice the minimum wage for entry level assemblers for a high tech robotics system..

What we got was druggies, drunks, no shows, random call offs because they were hungover from partying all night.. A few of them managed to skirt around attendance points system for 5 yrs or a bit more.. Once a half a point rolled off they were back at calling off..

There work ethic was the pits, delivered sloppy and incomplete work and had the lowest daily production numbers..

Just because you pay more for labor, does not always turn into "better" labor and products.

So, if a RV manufacturer paid twice as much wage, they WILL have to raise the price of your new RV by twice as much to cover the added labor expense.

RV manufacturers just like any other business must take into consideration the entire cost of the employee.

Doubling the wage, means the employer pays double their part of SS, plus means any 401K matches must increase and any other benefit costs that the company incurs for each employee.

Now, if every business must increase the wage, that means everyone will in the end pay more for all goods and services which in the end results in eating up every penny of that increase.

So, would you be willing to pay $50K for a RV that used to cost $25K with the exact same level of current quality? That is what in fact you and many others are proposing.