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Originally Posted by Damien
Well you can't really undermine existing wages if a country has a minimum wage. I guess the problem is self-employed tradesman? That's a bit of a mixed bag though because whilst they may undercut the existing traders sometimes the cost of those tradesman can be very high. Plumbers for example are crazy expense per hour. I also wouldn't say those people are the lowest earners either.
You're right though. We do need to do more to stop the richer getting richer at the poor and better distribute income in this country.
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You can easily be undercut if you happen to earn more than the minimum wage which is what 99.9% of qualified tradesmen would have been.
How close to the minimum wage are you and how would you feel if an influx of cheap labour from the former Soviet state Undercutdamien was to flood the UK and do you out of a job? That's a 'right' we could all do without IMHO. It's no accident that those in favour of free movement generally seem to be from professions which don't suffer. Odd that eh?...