German worker moral is low for one reason: The Turks (and other imported labour) works cheaper that the German worker does. Their unions have pushed and pushed until the German companies have virtually no choice but to hire someone other than a German to keep the factories running. A German worker, I've been told, get something like 6 weeks vacation per year, 30 hour work weeks (that's considered full time), and a ton of other benefits that pale to the American labour standard. FWIW, I have a aunt that survived WW II and immigrated to the US as a German refugee (displaced person). To this day, she truly believes that the persecution of the Jews (and the Slovaks, Gypsies, Poles, Africans, and myriad others), never happened. Period. (For the record, I do not subscribe to her belief. I'm just pointing out that there are older Germans that can not discern the truth from the propaganda of their youth.) Alan Bosch Phred ('88 Wolfsburg) Proud of my Tutonic heritage, if not their history... |
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