Sept 20, 2023 0:57:33 GMT c said:

Companies leave Detroit they will also need to be prepared to deal with the repercussions of their actions. Taxpayers bailed them out three times in the past 15 years. They fuck the workers they will not get a fourth one next time the GOP trashes the economy.

Corporate welfare wrong, money should never go strings free to non government entities. 
It would be like a government paying a private company to develop a vaccine, then have them patent it and sell it back to you and it doesn't even work... Not that this would happen or anything... 

Amazon gonna hire a quarter of million workers for the next three months. Pay will be $17 in the south, $20 to $28 elsewhere.

But OMG companies cannot possibly afford $15 an hour, they will go broke. Also these are the same wages the Big Three are paying auto-workers now.

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Also seeing a city and country level push to kill sub-min wage.  Several areas about to kill sub-min wages for service staff, making them get min wage at least plus tips.  Restaurant industry claims when this happens they will go bankrupt and currently pay $3 - $4 an hour plus tips in most places.  

Chicago is looking to be the first major city to kill sub-min wage.  Sub-min there is 9.48, while min is 15.80.

GM not trying to reach a deal so strike now will expand to 38 new GM facilities in 20 states.

Hollywood realized it needs writers afterall and made a deal with WGA.

Likely will focus on bringing back SAG now. SAG demands not much different than WGA demands.

UAW say if the strike does not end soon, they will go to a nuclear option and strikes systematically to make sure no production can occur by blocking enough parts of the chain to shut everything down.  Right now only 16% are striking, so it will be a massive expansion.  Unlike WGA and SAG, UAW wants to get back to work and do not want a long strike.

More strikes brewing in other industries.  Caregiver strike likely to be the next major one with no real offramp right now.

Sept 21, 2023 5:15:23 GMT c said:

Amazon gonna hire a quarter of million workers for the next three months. Pay will be $17 in the south, $20 to $28 elsewhere.

But OMG companies cannot possibly afford $15 an hour, they will go broke. Also these are the same wages the Big Three are paying auto-workers now.

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Also seeing a city and country level push to kill sub-min wage.  Several areas about to kill sub-min wages for service staff, making them get min wage at least plus tips.  Restaurant industry claims when this happens they will go bankrupt and currently pay $3 - $4 an hour plus tips in most places.  

Chicago is looking to be the first major city to kill sub-min wage.  Sub-min there is 9.48, while min is 15.80.

For the record the cost of food in restaurants is about to go up.
I completely agree that people requiring tips to live is a nonsense, but don't expect that they are going to bring in a minimum wage and people still are going to tip 15-20% of their bill, it ain't going to happen.

Sept 25, 2023 3:42:42 GMT iNCY said:

Sept 21, 2023 5:15:23 GMT c said:

Amazon gonna hire a quarter of million workers for the next three months. Pay will be $17 in the south, $20 to $28 elsewhere.

But OMG companies cannot possibly afford $15 an hour, they will go broke. Also these are the same wages the Big Three are paying auto-workers now.

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Also seeing a city and country level push to kill sub-min wage.  Several areas about to kill sub-min wages for service staff, making them get min wage at least plus tips.  Restaurant industry claims when this happens they will go bankrupt and currently pay $3 - $4 an hour plus tips in most places.  

Chicago is looking to be the first major city to kill sub-min wage.  Sub-min there is 9.48, while min is 15.80.

For the record the cost of food in restaurants is about to go up.
I completely agree that people requiring tips to live is a nonsense, but don't expect that they are going to bring in a minimum wage and people still are going to tip 15-20% of their bill, it ain't going to happen.

A conspiracy theorist might suggest, big retailers are pushing this " worst summer ever " gimmick in the media, as a means to jack up the prices of food. As, you know... the drought that hasn't happened here yet, is the reason food prices will go up next week.

Sept 25, 2023 6:53:11 GMT NATH45 said:

Sept 25, 2023 3:42:42 GMT iNCY said:

For the record the cost of food in restaurants is about to go up.
I completely agree that people requiring tips to live is a nonsense, but don't expect that they are going to bring in a minimum wage and people still are going to tip 15-20% of their bill, it ain't going to happen.

A conspiracy theorist might suggest, big retailers are pushing this " worst summer ever " gimmick in the media, as a means to jack up the prices of food. As, you know... the drought that hasn't happened here yet, is the reason food prices will go up next week.

I get tired of companies getting nailed for "RECORD PROFITS".
With inflation, the number is always bigger, but if you adjust for inflation I am not sure they're record profits at all.


Woolworths
The company’s net profit increased 4.6% to $1.62bn for the full financial year, while overall sales hit $64.29bn, derived from its Australian and New Zealand supermarket operations as well as discount chain Big W.

That's 2.5% profit, hardly a company swimming in cash.

National chains use national prices whether or not submin is legal in a state or not. Places can up their food prices but they will likely lose customers and close. All higher end place already pay at least min wage.

Tipping culture is slowly going away too being replaced with mandatory service fees. Cost to most consumers is the same, the tip is just no longer optional.

NLRB just called non-competes as they are commonly used unethical and will seek to make them an unfair labor practice. US 18 percent of all workers are on non-competes when really less than 1 should be. Do to gross misuse it seems both the FTC and now NLRB will seek to nuke their use entirely. States are killing them as well limited them to very specific usage only.

Are wages really that shit across the board? I often see the buccees wage chart posted on reddit and people are always going crazy about it being great pay. Is it though? IMO 18-20 is essentially minimum wage. You really shouldn't even waste your time for less than that starting out in 2023. Of course on my way to my parent's house there's a Wendy's that's STILL playing the "up to 13" games, so maybe it is better than most...

Median US wage is 45,760. Math it out that is 22 an hour that half the country makes less than.

Sept 25, 2023 21:00:10 GMT @ness said:

Are wages really that shit across the board? I often see the buccees wage chart posted on reddit and people are always going crazy about it being great pay. Is it though? IMO 18-20 is essentially minimum wage. You really shouldn't even waste your time for less than that starting out in 2023. Of course on my way to my parent's house there's a Wendy's that's STILL playing the "up to 13" games, so maybe it is better than most...

I was talking to a lady who owns a burger joint near my house, she can't get enough staff to open some days and they pay $35 per hour. That's the going rate here and it's well above award which is like $28 for weekdays. 

This is a casual rate so it's not meant to include sick pay or holiday pay, but our government is trying to pass laws to change that, so that essentially the part time wage. 

Sept 25, 2023 21:19:33 GMT c said:

Median US wage is 45,760. Math it out that is 22 an hour that half the country makes less than.

That's not the number for full time workers, so you can't work it out like that. 

The full time number is $56,287 but that's for 2020

Current number is $1,107 per week which is $27.67
For reference I started on $5.50 per hour as an apprentice

You do not use that number because not all people who work full time are considered full time workers. People who work two jobs at 30 and each are not considered full time. 10% of our workforce is like this so it is not a trivial amount anyway.

I started at 4.75 but rent was 800 for a two bedroom, now it is at least 2000.

People keep trying to paint everyone in the US workforce as rich, but go to any major city and you will see thousands of people living on the street.  Go to rural areas and you will people living without power in boarded up houses.  Many survive literally buy selling their blood twice a week as it pays almost as much as a job.  When all you use is the media, social or traditional, it is easy to miss how the majority of the common lower class people have to live.  And everyone in America just about is one medical emergency away from bankruptcy and can join them at any time.

Sept 25, 2023 22:05:57 GMT c said:

You do not use that number because not all people who work full time are considered full time workers. People who work two jobs at 30 and each are not considered full time. 10% of our workforce is like this so it is not a trivial amount anyway.

I started at 4.75 but rent was 800 for a two bedroom, now it is at least 2000.

People keep trying to paint everyone in the US workforce as rich, but go to any major city and you will see thousands of people living on the street.  Go to rural areas and you will people living without power in boarded up houses.  Many survive literally buy selling their blood twice a week as it pays almost as much as a job.  When all you use is the media, social or traditional, it is easy to miss how the majority of the common lower class people have to live.  And everyone in America just about is one medical emergency away from bankruptcy and can join them at any time.

I'm not arguing your premise, my country doesn't have the working poor like the USA does, we believe in a living wage.

The difference is that the nation here is focused on the outcome of the whole while yours is focused on the freedom of the individual.

To raise the wages of the lower class is to increase the costs of everything on everyone else, that's not in the DNA of your country and again it's not a discussion that politicians seem to want to enter into. The only way to increase the livelihoods of the lower class is to diminish the middle class, it's what we actively do here.

It is a balancing act though as here it's getting to the point where the stress levels of middle income leaves many happy to take the bottom end jobs and the government assistance that comes with it.

It's a tough job to balance incentives and equality.

This is why many in the US oppose piecework pay. This is how it works.  Only can get an hourly rate if you are white or union though.  Non-union hispanics get piecemeal rates only.

CVS and Walgreens pharmacists doing a unionless strike about working severely undermanned. Will force many pharmacies to shut down completely as there are no replacement pharmacists out there. CVS offered them a strong apology so far.

Cali increased min wage for fast food workers to 20 an hour. Prices for national chains oddly enough are the same as places that pay 7.25 an hour. And still 9% of all McDonalds are in that state. More than in all of Australia for comparison.

Looks like what we are told is basic economics utterly broke down. Where are all the stores closing or prices skyrocketing? And are not more stores opening in states with cheaper labor?  And why are there more McDonalds in states with the highest labor costs?  Basic economics have no answer it appears.

There's a loophole -

The new minimum wage for fast food workers will apply to restaurants with at least 60 locations nationwide, with an exception for restaurants that make and sell their own bread, like Panera Bread.

Get ready for McDonald's new baked-in-house buns.

That is a fuck you in particular loophole.

Waffles Houses in Georgia on strike now. Strikes were done in July in SC. Main demand is in house security to stop armed customers from threatening them or using their stores as a wrestling ring.  They are repped by Union of Southern Service Workers.

What were the results of these strikes? Also crazy to learn they get money deducted every shift for their meals whether they want to or not. Always heard places like Mc offer a meal, but didn't think you still had to pay for it even if it's cheaper than what us custies pay.

Health care workers went on strike.

apnews.com/article/kaiser-health-care-workers-strike-b8b40ce8c082c0b8c4f1c0fb7ec38741

Generally the strikes have resulted in most of the strikers demands being met. The WGA got AI use severely limited, expanded residuals on international streams, expanded writer teams on shows and other minor wins.

The Waffle House strikes were demonstrative strikes so far, but more serious ones were started this week at locations all throughout the South. Still selective in locations but demands are not unrealistic. Security needs to be a thing, when state of emergencies are declared, the workers would not be force to still go to work, pay raises have not kept up given employees are also expected to physically fight customers and security is needed to deal with the guns being brought in.  Charging for a meal whether you eat it or not is scammy as fuck.

The bad bitch who caught the chair needs to be the center of all WH demands.

Walgreens pharm strikes next week Mon to Weds. Workers will simply not show up to push for proper staffing and pay. During the strikes expected they will also be looking for work elsewhere as few have faith that Walgreens will pay them what a PhD holder should have.

Oct 8, 2023 1:00:38 GMT c said:

looking for work elsewhere as few have faith that Walgreens will pay them what a PhD holder should have.

This is the thing. Woolworths and Coles workers apparently went on strike yesterday, and for what... better pay of course. The base adult rate is $21. Or just under $800 a week for full time workers. But what do they expect in a job that requires zero certification or qualification and can be done with often better results by a 15 year old kid on the weekend? These aren't exactly highly skilled or specialist jobs.

The only argument you could make to supermarkets and all Australian retailers is they shouldn't be allowed to purposely run lean. If a store requires 2,000 hours a week to operate, the brass shouldn't give them 1,800 and expect the same result or customers not be frustrated by a lack of service. This is the problem at the moment, and has been for years.

The people striking here need doctorates of pharmacy and certification and are extremely specialized jobs. Pharmacist strikes, no matter how many other people show up the pharmacy cannot legally fill prescriptions.

What do they actually do? I thought it was weird you needed a special degree to put pills in a bottle. Obviously that can't be "it"...

The main thing they do is review medication lists for deadly interactions and stop scripts that were misprescribed from being filled. Pharm techs do the filling, but they cannot fill shit without the pharmacist reviewing and signing off.

In a properly staffed workspace, pharmacists should not be filling the scripts themselves.  But then jobs started to think they did not have enough work, and started to cut staff so they had to also start filling scripts.  So now we got strikes.

Strikes do not resolve this problem, we will see a wave of pharmacies closing as there are about two open jobs for every pharmacist.  

Oct 8, 2023 14:33:33 GMT c said:

The main thing they do is review medication lists for deadly interactions and stop scripts that were misprescribed from being filled. Pharm techs do the filling, but they cannot fill shit without the pharmacist reviewing and signing off.

In a properly staffed workspace, pharmacists should not be filling the scripts themselves.  But then jobs started to think they did not have enough work, and started to cut staff so they had to also start filling scripts.  So now we got strikes.

Strikes do not resolve this problem, we will see a wave of pharmacies closing as there are about two open jobs for every pharmacist.  

The industry would love to close stores. They want a direct mail system anyway. Cut jobs and overhead make the same money.