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yawn......less than 2% of working people earn minimum wage....
Want to earn more? Become WORTH more.
What about the EMT coming to save your life that only earns a dollar more per hour but still has to work 80 hours a week to make the rent. Better hope you get sick at the start of their shift.
Why do union advocates always want to roll back 60 years of progress?
I see your point. A grocery bagger is a grocery bagger. They are not any more efficient than they were in 1950. But at the same time, their rate of pay should have kept up with the average productivity of American business. They are doing the same work, for a smaller piece of the pie.
Why? They're lucky to have a job at all. With new technology people can check out of a grocery store or Home Depot without anyone's help. It's a non-skilled JOB. It's not a career. It's a stepping stone, not a landing zone.
yawn......less than 2% of working people earn minimum wage....
Want to earn more? Become WORTH more.
What about the EMT coming to save your life that only earns a dollar more per hour but still has to work 80 hours a week to make the rent. Better hope you get sick at the start of their shift.
Not true.
.According to the BLS -
The median annual wage for emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics was $31,020 in May 2012.
yawn......less than 2% of working people earn minimum wage....
Want to earn more? Become WORTH more.
What about the EMT coming to save your life that only earns a dollar more per hour but still has to work 80 hours a week to make the rent. Better hope you get sick at the start of their shift.
Not true.
.According to the BLS -
The median annual wage for emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics was $31,020 in May 2012.
Inaccurate. I am an EMT. I can tell you that first hand.
Why do union advocates always want to roll back 60 years of progress?
I see your point. A grocery bagger is a grocery bagger. They are not any more efficient than they were in 1950. But at the same time, their rate of pay should have kept up with the average productivity of American business. They are doing the same work, for a smaller piece of the pie.
Why? They're lucky to have a job at all. With new technology people can check out of a grocery store or Home Depot without anyone's help. It's a non-skilled JOB. It's not a career. It's a stepping stone, not a landing zone.
Stepping stone my ass. My aunt bought a house, raised a family, and got a college degree for the hell of it on a cashiers wage from the 70s to 90s. You take her spending dollars out of the economy, you won't have anyone to even shop at your automated registers.
The American economy was at its peak when unions were at their strongest. Coincidence? Even Henry Ford himself knew enough to pay his workers a living wage.
1. There is no such thing as a living wage.
2. The strongest economy was during the REAGAN years, which made unions pretty much obsolete.
3. Conditions for workers (along with pay) improved because AND ONLY BECAUSE of capital accumulation. Unions had ZIPPO to do with it.
All for movies and food that cost 3 times as much as before (20 years ago).
and your point is?
Increased minimum wage has led to a diminished customer satisfaction, fewer jobs, and higher prices in the movie business.
Concessions have always been the revenue generator for theaters.
In the past, projectionists were highly skilled and respected UNION workers. Comparably, they made roughly $100/hr in today's dollars, from their peak.
Today, the modern technology of the projection room is so simple a chimpanzee can learn to operate it. Today any idiot can throw a switch. Unions are obsolete.
Do you think things will be better when those jobs are illegal?
If your business operates on welfare subsidized labor, GTFO. And then yes, things will be better. China-Mart infiltration is coming in through the Republican party. Ironic.
Clearly you are blinded by political rhetoric and not at all interested in historical data.
yawn......less than 2% of working people earn minimum wage....
Want to earn more? Become WORTH more.
What about the EMT coming to save your life that only earns a dollar more per hour but still has to work 80 hours a week to make the rent. Better hope you get sick at the start of their shift.
Not true.
.According to the BLS -
The median annual wage for emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics was $31,020 in May 2012.
Inaccurate. I am an EMT. I can tell you that first hand.
Anecdotes are fun, but the BLS is non partisan and have no axe to grind. Just because you don't earn that much or more doesn't mean squat.....
How long have you been doing the job, and where are you located?
No, they should work for the price agreed upon when the take the job.
So you support illegal immigration then too I expect?
Absolutely not.
Why not? If a Mexican agrees to work for 50 cents a day. It's none of your business.
It's my business if he's not here legally.
Oh, so it's okay to regulate the free market in some places but not others? We can regulate it to ban foreign workers, but not for the benefit of domestic workers or the national economy?
So, make it illegal for employers to hire people on public assistance. That ensures that employers won't benefit from the welfare state, and requires them to pay a decent wage to attract employees. Problem solved.
I don't entirely disagree with that idea. But that winds up setting the stage to invite MORE illegals and does nothing to boost the economy. It's a half-assed measure. Sort of like raising the min wage by a quarter or some nonsense. It doesn't get us out of the grind.
Horse buggy manufacturers felt the same way when the Automobile came along....yet somehow people adapt.
Concessions have always been the revenue generator for theaters.
In the past, projectionists were highly skilled and respected UNION workers. Comparably, they made roughly $100/hr in today's dollars, from their peak.
Today, the modern technology of the projection room is so simple a chimpanzee can learn to operate it. Today any idiot can throw a switch. Unions are obsolete.
So why have anyone work at all?
Do you think things will be better when those jobs are illegal?
If your business operates on welfare subsidized labor, GTFO. And then yes, things will be better. China-Mart infiltration is coming in through the Republican party. Ironic.
How is that ironic?
As I've said repeatedly, businesses shouldn't be able to hire people who are on welfare. But if someone wants to work for less than your idea of the 'minimum', it's really none of your fucking business.
Why do union advocates always want to roll back 60 years of progress?
I see your point. A grocery bagger is a grocery bagger. They are not any more efficient than they were in 1950. But at the same time, their rate of pay should have kept up with the average productivity of American business. They are doing the same work, for a smaller piece of the pie.
yawn......less than 2% of working people earn minimum wage....
Want to earn more? Become WORTH more.
What about the EMT coming to save your life that only earns a dollar more per hour but still has to work 80 hours a week to make the rent. Better hope you get sick at the start of their shift.
Clearly you are blinded by political rhetoric and not at all interested in historical data.
why be so afraid to share the data?? What does your fear teach us about liberalism?
Do you think things will be better when those jobs are illegal?
If your business operates on welfare subsidized labor, GTFO. And then yes, things will be better. China-Mart infiltration is coming in through the Republican party. Ironic.
How is that ironic?
As I've said repeatedly, businesses shouldn't be able to hire people who are on welfare. But if someone wants to work for less than your idea of the 'minimum', it's really none of your fucking business.
You r solution is to leave everyone living at home with their parents?
