$12.00 hr fourty hours a week 5 days a week $480 per week. Nobody can live on that and they know it. Soo.. we’ll let em work every Saturday for 8 hours at time and a half add 156.00. Now we have a combined $13.25 hr. or $636.00 a week. Working Saturday is now part of the overall plan to just give labor enough to survive . An old bumper sticker WEEKENDS brought to you by unions. It’s creeping back to a 6 day week folks. This is why they walked and why we must walk.
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If you are making $12 an hour, you probably don't have any skills.
A starting prem tech makes around 12-14/hr depending on the district contract. It’s horrible pay for that job.
What AT&T tech makes $12 an hour? Disingenuous.
The formation of unions helped to strengthen the idea of working five days a week as well. In 1937, auto plant workers staged a sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, to protest bleak conditions at General Motors that included no bathroom breaks, no benefits or sick pay and no safety standards.
The negotiations between GM and the United Auto Workers ultimately improved working conditions. The federal government would show its support when Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, a key part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Ask a Mexican how many days a week they typically work in their country. 6. Overtime is only required after 48 hrs.
Great Post
Work life balance is lost under these wages
BS. Weekends brought to us by our Judeo Christian heritage which had sabbaths for centuries before unions came along