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Target raised wages. Then it cut workers' hours and doubled their workload
The Guardian (UK) ^

Posted on 02/27/2020 4:24:24 PM PST by matt04

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You want $15/hr, you need to perform $15/hr worth of work. You better figure out how to make it work or find a way to move up the chain at Target to a guaranteed FT job.
1 posted on 02/27/2020 4:24:24 PM PST by matt04
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This ALWAYS happens and these people are SO STUPID!! So yes they get $15.00 an hour but their hours are cut they no longer get the benefits of a full time worker, everything they now buy costs more because of the wage increase, more payroll taxes come out of their check AND the only people benefiting from the wage increase is the damn government getting more money in payroll taxes!! I just can’t believe how stupid American workers are!!!


2 posted on 02/27/2020 4:29:04 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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Boy oh boy. Burny ain’t gonna like this.


3 posted on 02/27/2020 4:29:43 PM PST by HighSierra5
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They essentially got a $2.00 an hour raise and lost their benefits and their hours, for a net pay loss, plus they got their workload increased. I’d say the $15 for All crowd did Target corporate a big favor.


4 posted on 02/27/2020 4:39:29 PM PST by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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Wow, nobody saw this coming...

Rolling eyes...

5 posted on 02/27/2020 4:41:06 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (AOC the bartender would have had to work on the second floor at Miss KittyÂ’s saloon...)
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Yep. Who here is surprised?

Everyone here knew this would happen.

Meanwhile, the Left has no clue.


6 posted on 02/27/2020 4:41:30 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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You get what you pay for, you earn what you are worth. Don’t like it, get a better job.


7 posted on 02/27/2020 4:49:31 PM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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But now Dems can put them on the dole and tell them they’ll even lose that if they vote Republican.


8 posted on 02/27/2020 4:50:54 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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Most companies want more work for more pay. Sign me up for one that doesn’t. Hint - there are none.


9 posted on 02/27/2020 4:55:10 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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demonKKKrats know the price of everything and the value of nothing.


10 posted on 02/27/2020 4:56:08 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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I think it costs more like $25 an hour to pay someone $15 an hour.


11 posted on 02/27/2020 5:01:28 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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Target isn't union. They probably raised the minimum wage to attract workers in a difficult economy for retail. The workers probably didn't take a vote on whether to accept the raises.

That said, union shops did vote and saw the same thing. Starting wages went up, hours needed for benefits went up so fewer qualified, and hours went down with a big push to self-checkout and customer scan-go technologies. It's frustrating because you may not have the labor to replace a call out. You need a certain number of hours to keep people coming to work but it's also hard to hire because the hours aren't there even if the base pay might get people to interview. Job mobility is too easy in this economy for retail caught in this trap.

12 posted on 02/27/2020 5:02:12 PM PST by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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I don’t see why people think 15 dollars is a ton of money. I think it’s pathetic. I could never survive on that raising four kids even with a wife working. That’s 31,000 and if wife works 31,000 to make it 62,000. Take home is around 47,000 after taxes and other items taken out of the check. 42,000 would be terrible for a family of six! Thank goodness my wife and I do better then that. Heck, roof needs replaced soon - 17,000. Heating and AC will be 6,000. House painting in August 3,5000. How can people live on 15 dollars an hour?????


13 posted on 02/27/2020 5:02:46 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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Well, can they make it up with food stamps?


14 posted on 02/27/2020 5:02:53 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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I worked there in the 90s.

Pay wasnt incredible, and work for me was hard, but the managers were the best folks I could work for and they gave me free meals from the store restaurant whenever I had to do something especially tedious and “messy”. For a college freshmen that was a sweet deal when I took my break to do homework and haven’t had a full meal since the previous day.

Still have some back pains from then, but still a great experience. Miss those people, still wont wear red and khaki ever again.


15 posted on 02/27/2020 5:06:05 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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Mr. Market always has his way. He’s a plodding, principled fellow, Mr. Market. It’s almost as if he and his friend Mr. Thermodynamics came from the same Mom, maybe even the same father and litter.


16 posted on 02/27/2020 5:15:24 PM PST by tinyowl
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There will always be ditch diggers. These are just the modern ones.


17 posted on 02/27/2020 5:17:44 PM PST by ebshumidors
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Very erudite !

Personally, I’ll never darken Target’s doors.


18 posted on 02/27/2020 5:19:26 PM PST by tomkat
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Target Gotta pay More in recent years to hire security officers to monitor the women’s dress rooms and restrooms.

The workers should’ve Realized then it wasn’t the place to be $15 or not


19 posted on 02/27/2020 5:21:54 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower CIAramella. PASS IT ON)
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In the real world, a $15 an Hour Employee Wage costs the Employer about $18 an Hour thanks to legally required State and Federal Employment Taxes.


20 posted on 02/27/2020 5:32:58 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (They Live, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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