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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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Stoping a union is a one off cost.
Increasing wages adds to costs for every future year.
If you spend hundreds of thousands once, you could instead spend a dollar each on 100 employees for ~80 years. They don't work that long usually, but just in case
Your math is right but scales are off.
Dollar raise a year? Yeah, $1 * 100 * 80 = $8000, and to a lot of businesses that's peanuts. It's also peanuts to the individual employees, if you work full time federal minimum wage you make $15600, an extra dollar wont make a difference there.
Increase hourly wage by a dollar, to the employee that's an extra 1 * 40 * 52 = $2080, and to the business that becomes $1 * 40 * 52 * 100, that's $208,000 annually they're paying out.
That's what they aim to stop
True, although I was at a dollar raise a month. The framing in the story was purposefully "I just ask for sth. very small" so that's how I read it. Dollar raise per hour is much more meaningful, but quite a significant increase