Posted on 02/27/2021 7:28:55 AM PST by MosesKnows
STOP THE PRESSES! LET’S BRING BACK THE 5 CENT CANDY BAR!
When politicians particularly members of today’s in name only democrat party started pushing for a higher minimum wage. The focus should have been on purchasing power of the lowest coin of the realm. Each time it was passed the price of an item like an individual candy bar and everything else increased. What began at 5 cents in the 1940’s was when the minnimum wage was 50 cents an hour . As the rate steadily increased so did candy bar prices to what it is today. The result has always been since it began devaluing the purchasing power of the dollar.What would happen if we revalued the penny into a dimes or a quarters purchasing power ?
Let’s not fall for the Democraps attempt to use minimum wage laws designed to prevent child labor exploitation with their push for a “living wage” to establish a guaranteed wage that will only be pushed higher and higher as the goverment managed economy concept becomes more and more prevalent to the detriment of a free market economy.
“Just remember a starting ICU nurse barely gets $15 an hour”
Where? In Atlanta, new RN graduates (not necessarily new ER nurses) start at $25/hr and up.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/atlanta-new-grad-rn-salary-SRCH_IL.0,7_IM52_KO8,19.htm
That’s the big city. Look at wages in the rural hospitals
Here is an ad for an RN, no experience required, at Putnam General Hospital in Eatonton, GA. We pass by this hospital once every six weeks or so on the way to the Georgia coast. Very rural area. Starting salary from $22/hr plus extensive benefits, with no experience. Apologies for the formatting.
Registered Nurse (RN) 7PM—7AM, Full-time- job post
PUTNAM GENERAL HOSPITAL
13 reviews
Eatonton, GA 31024
Employer actively reviewed candidates 8 days ago
Urgently hiring
Job details
Salary
From $22 an hour
Job Type
Full-time
Number of hires for this role
3
Qualifications
BLS Certification (Preferred)
RN license (Preferred)
Full Job Description
Position Description:
Plan and supervise the nursing care delivered to acutely ill pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients in designated units in accordance with all standards governing our facility. Salary is dependent upon education and experience.
Minimal Qualifications:
1. Education:
a. Current licensure by Georgia State Board of Nursing
b. BCLS
c. If primary assignment is in critical care area ACLS certification required within 1 year.
d. If primary assignment is emergency department, PALS certification required within 1 year.
2. Experience:
a. None required, may be obtained during orientation and preceptorship
3. Personal skills/abilities:
a. Human relation skills are needed for personal interaction with other employees, patients, physicians and the general pubic.
b. Temperamental ability to be pleasant, cheerful, tactful, cooperative, responsible, compassionate, and courteous.
Physical/Mental Demands:
1. Verbal ability is necessary to communicate with patients and staff; to understand instructions, medical terminology and concepts; and to keep accurate records.
2. Manual dexterity is required to use hands skillfully.
3. The physical demands are standing, walking, lifting, and pushing patients and/or carts, wheelchairs, reaching, handling, fingering of instruments, equipment, dressings, stooping, climbing, crouching, grasping, repetitive motions, medium work requirements, etc. Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
4. Form perception and near visual acuity to observe pertinent details of equipment and patients.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $22.00 per hour
Benefits:
401(k)
Dental insurance
Disability insurance
Employee discount
Free parking
Health insurance
Life insurance
Paid time off
Prescription drug insurance
Vision insurance
Medical Specialty:
Medical-Surgical
Schedule:
12 hour shift
Night shift
Supplemental Pay:
Differential pay
Overtime pay
License/Certification:
BLS Certification (Preferred)
RN license (Preferred)
Environment:
Inpatient
Employer type:
General hospital
Completed license needed:
Upon starting work
EMR Used:
Not listed / Other
Patient Type:
Family
Uniform:
Nurses wear own scrubs
Nurse Patient Ratio:
1:6
This Job Is:
A job for which military experienced candidates are encouraged to apply
A good fit for applicants with gaps in their resume, or who have been out of the workforce for the past 6 months or more
A good job for someone just entering the workforce or returning to the workforce with limited experience and education
A job for which all ages, including older job seekers, are encouraged to apply
Company’s website:
WWW.PUTNAMGENERAL.COM
Benefit Conditions:
Waiting period may apply
Only full-time employees eligible
Work Remotely:
No
30+ days ago
If you require alternative methods of application or screening, you must approach the employer directly to request this as Indeed is not responsible for the employer’s application process.
Putnam is desperate for bodies. CoVid has decimated the community
“Putnam is desperate for bodies. CoVid has decimated the community”
The ad is to fill three RN vacancies. Seems about normal for a hospital of that size. There is a severe shortage of RNs in many communities. Long shifts, stressful work, and frequent burn-out. The number of confirmed Covid cases in Putnam (7500 per 100,000) is about average for the state. There are many counties in Georgia with more than 10,000 cases per 100,000 people.
The correct minimum wage is zero if you want to solidify the country club Republican vote and to forever forgo becoming the working class party. If so then by all means promote the idea no minimum wage. If the Republicans get behind an increase in the min wage where are the country clubbers going to go?
You are looking at today’s numbers. You must not live in Georgia
You posed a different question. What should be and what we can get passed ate two different things. Since we have a law, as ungrounded in the constitution as it is, we should pass what ever minimum, minimum wage bill we can get.
Worrying that an inflation adjusted minimum isn’t growing, should not be a basis for change.
We already have a zero minimum wage. It’s called an internship.
Anyone with half a brain should see a giant red flag in all this when the increase in the minimum wage is viewed in the context of the OTHER elements of the leftist agenda in the U.S. The whole thing is a farce and will inevitably result in a collapse of our entire social order. Just look at ALL The things they’re pushing here, dude:
1. Raise the minimum wage to $15/hour — even for workers who don’t produce $15/hour of value for their work.
2. Force employers to pay for health insurance — so the $15/hour worker now costs $18-$20 per hour.
3. Flood the country with illegal immigrants — who will simply undercut the $15/hour worker anyway.
4. Adopt a “universal basic income” — to pay people $15/hour even if they don’t work anyway, and even if they are illegal aliens.
This has nothing to do with “country club Republicans.” It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this is going to be an absolute disaster.
“You are looking at today’s numbers. You must not live in Georgia”
I live in Northeast Georgia. I travel regularly on backroads through Middle and Southeast Georgia. I know almost every small town between Greensboro and Brunswick. I quoted current Covid numbers because those, along with other factors affecting demand for hospital services, drive the current demand for nurses. I notice you have retreated from your claim that starting RN salaries begin at $15/hour.
Then if you live in Georgia you should remember that Putnam was hit very hard early on in the CoVid onset. A nursing home swamped the hospital in Putnam
“Then if you live in Georgia you should remember that Putnam was hit very hard early on in the CoVid onset. A nursing home swamped the hospital in Putnam”
Yes, but that has nothing to do with the starting salaries for RNs, which is what initiated our exchange. I know the hospitals in Madison, Greensboro, Edenton, Vidalia, Reidsville, and Brunswick (as well as in larger places like Athens). None of them can hire new RNs at $15/hour.
Pickens and Cherokee do routinely
It has everything to do wit it.
This has nothing to do with “country club Republicans.” It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this is going to be an absolute disaster.
When it doesn't?
“Pickens and Cherokee do routinely”
Hard to believe. Do you have a source/link?
My daughter an RN and her colleagues
Piedmont Mountainside in Jasper currently has openings for seven RNs in ICU alone. If hospitals in that area pay “barely” $15/hour for new RNs, as your daughter claims, that may explain why. Many rural hospitals in Georgia are paying +$22/hour for new RNs.
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