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!!!
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.
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.
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?????
Well, can they make it up with food stamps?