Workers need a living wage

Minimum wage workers do need a living wage. In past years these jobs were stepping stones while the worker went to school or were a first job to achieve workplace experience. Few thought these jobs were jobs for life. From the minimum wage jobs people went on to one of the thousands of factory jobs or to the fields they were training for.

Then came free trade and many of those factory jobs went offshore. We can thank the government of the time for that. I went to a union rally and headstones were set up, one for every job that left our country. I couldn’t believe how many hundreds of headstones were there.

I do feel for the small businesses, but sometimes it comes down to bad government decisions. Jerry Gervais, Windsor