Andy andy. Let's pretend that you are highly skilled in your field and that there are ONLY a limited number of other people who have your skills and talents.
You know anything about supply and demand?
A shortage of your skills in the job market usually means that a competitor of the company you work for would pay you MORE money to change jobs. Highly skilled, highly sought after.
If the companies agree to NOT BID HIGHER WAGES for each other's employees, how is that good for the prospective employee? And how is it not wage fixing by the companies? How is that fair for the market supposedly set by supply and demand. The.companies are price fixing for labor costs. And that's illegal if they do that.
That's why they settled the suit. They were wrong.
WHOA WHOA WHOA>....
They did not make that agreement.
You don't even understand the argument.
Did you even read the links about this case?
After Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Pixar, And Intuit, Antitrust Employment Charges Hit eBay
Listen and you might learn something.
The ONLY agreement the companies agreed to........
was to not "cold-call" other companies high level employees.
That's it. There was no agreement to not offer higher wages. And in fact, it was well know that employees could apply for jobs at the other companies for much higher pay. AND THEY DID.
The ONLY thing the agreement did, was that the company itself would not specifically TARGET and COLD CALL, high level employees. It did NOTHING to prevent employees from applying for, and getting higher paying jobs.
There was no "price fixing for labor costs", there was no "collusion on wage", there was no holding wages down PERIOD.
This is what all of you on the left, are so ignorant about. You hear someone somewhere, claim that they were holding wages down, and without a shred of evidence start barking like mad dogs.
AND HERE IS WHAT IS WORSE
You people are all hypocrites!
Not even 20 years ago, you were ATTACKING corporations for Poaching!
Borland Charges Microsoft Stole Away Its Employees
Updated May 8, 1997 12:47 a.m. ET
Borland International Inc. filed suit in California state court, charging Microsoft Corp. with an illegal recruiting blitz aimed at taking Borland programmers and thwarting its financial turnaround.
The charge adds to the litany of complaints by Microsoft's rivals, who have claimed the software giant engages in predatory business practices. The dispute highlights an increasingly contentious issue, as companies vie for a limited pool of high-level developers.
The suit by the Scotts Valley, Calif., software company says Microsoft has hired 34 employees from Borland since August 1994, including two senior developers given bonuses of more than $1.5 million to join Microsoft.
One of the reasons the government filed anti-trust suits against Microsoft was over POACHING! Microsoft was cold calling employees of rival software companies and stealing away their talent, to eliminate the competition.
OH... SO poaching is BAD, unless companies agree to not do it, and then it's GOOD. This goes back to what I said about you immoral idiot before. You'd scream about companies no matter what they did. In this case, the companies are NOT doing something and you are screaming about it.
You people are SCUM. If they charge less, it's wrong. If they charge more, it's wrong. If the charge the same, it's wrong. You people are trash. You'd destroy the whole country for the sake of attacking every company you can, no matter what they do, or if they do nothing.