• Clent@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    $120 a year is too much to justify a 10% raise?

    That’s some bad cost benefit analysis.

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      9 months ago

      Maybe the pay is so low to begin with that a ten percent raise is less than the 10 dollars in union dues a paycheck.

      $520 a year isn’t much though, if your first 20 minutes of work for the pay period pays your dues then you have another 39.66 hours of money that is for you and your creditors.

      Edit: did bad math. Look further down comment for adjustments

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        9 months ago

        What math are you using?

        They said $10 per month. You use pay period. Then you switch to weekly pay.

        This highlights another reason for unionization, using people who understand accounting to determine what is a good deal for the workers.

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          9 months ago

          I’m using “I’ve been up for 20 hours because I’m packing my house up to move somewhere affordable” math. I meant 79.66 hours of your own money. I read their post wrong and thought it must be 10 a paycheck because it seems so small. When I was a Teamster many years ago it was nearly 800 a year so thirty dollars a paycheck.

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        <.<

        Firstly, they said $10/month which would mean an hourly rate of ~$0.60 using that logic.

        Secondly, even if they said per paycheck and get paid weekly, they would have to be making less than $2.50 an hour for that to make sense.

        I highly doubt you’d fine a place that allows for wages that low, which also has a system in place to protect unions and workers.