But just possibly, the equipment would be better if the company that puts its name on the box really made it, with its own workers.
United said it employs its own workers at 47 of 227 domestic airports and 27 airports use a mix of United and vendor employees.
But with a $451 billion trade deficit in goods, the United States cannot lift the entire world out of poverty through trade, even if it was willing to sacrifice millions of its own workers, which it cannot morally do.
McDonald's is joining the rest of us in worrying about income inequality, but not because it thinks low-wage workers don't make enough -- instead, it worries it might have to pay its own workers more.
But beyond this, the medical system needs to re-evaluate itself and the way it respects — or disrespects — its own workers, and by extension, its patients.
The city now spends almost as much on providing pensions and health-care insurance for its own workers as it does on providing food stamps, medical care, and other social services.
In that rush it kills dozens of its own workers every week – its coal mines, where the frantic 24-hour grab for energy supplies proceeds with total disregard for safety, are the most dangerous mines in the world.
Google could offer a library of its own workers, and it could provide developers a platform where they could upload and share their own worker recipes.
So how can it cut the retirement benefits of its own workers without undermining its brand?
It recommended that the government should pay its own workers a "living wage".
But it wants to make each company solely responsible for its own workers' benefits in the future.
