Originally Posted by
redgoober4life
Have YOU worked in a union plant? It's not an 8-hour workday by any means.
I imagine the workday in China or India involves more actual work. i.e. the countries we are competing against.
Let's see these studies, and who conducted them.
Labor unions represent 12.5% of the US labor force. To use them as a gauge for how lazy the American Workforce is would be very presumptuous and ignorant.
However, comparing a "typical" workday for someone in China or India as someone in the US is apples to Oranges. US Labor laws are for more stringent, not to mention we are not as manufacturing oriented as either of those two countries.
As for figures comparing China/India/other developing 3rd/2nd world countries to the US, I don't have them. I can find evidence that shows the US in the top tier of hours worked and output in comparison to most other industrialized countries (primarily Europe), however a 15 second google search can yield you these stats and I shouldn't need to hold your hand to find something known to be pretty obvious.