Posted on 07/09/2013 3:34:11 AM PDT by grundle
What you said.
Double.
I have learned the rate of pay is but one issue.
The contract language, and work place rules, have a huge impact on Companies.
This is why we so desperately need Moslem immigration.
They are far and away the ultimate arbiters of what is “insulting” and “offensive.”
Sorry, but if a person agrees with this writer they are a liberal.
It has nothing to do with how long you have been there it has to do only with what the position is worth to the company.
In DC they finally allowed Wal-Mart to open a store there, now that Wal-Mart is open the city is passing a bill that will raise the minimum wage a couple dollars an hour on Wal-Mart.
I can’t wait to hear the screams when Wal-Mart closes the store and opens across the line in Maryland.
Also, Ron Paul would not support your position, so that makes you a liberal too, I think you are a liberal troll.
Trouble is as a business owner I can go get a different forklift operator for less than $16/hr. The cost of an employee isn’t just their wage. There are many other elements including obamacare to consider.
Perhaps they could hire an adult for $11/hr? Or a responsible highschool grad. Lots of options in a free market.
If you want to make more than the business can afford either upgrade your skills or find another company willing to pay more.
His point of view and your’s is wrong.
He is not “returning” to a job.
His job was done away with when the old company closed.
A new company making the old product has opened up and started production. He was offered a similar job at that new company - and turned it down.
Life is full of choices.
I’m sorry but I can’t agree with you, as a 52 year old struggling to find work, I would have snatched their hand off.
I know its a bit of a come down to drop from $16.53 to $11, but it would have provided a job and a wage whilst looking for something better!
pay cuts suck, being unemployed sucks worse
After 22 years of work he was making $16 an hour?
In 22 years he could have finished college or gone to a trade school, become an apprentice and then a master tradesman - plumber, electrician, carpenter, etc.
C’mon people, take charge!
In 22 years this guy didn't desire to do anything other than this or qualify for a better paying position?
If the new company was going to be forced to pay union scale wages for all their newly hired employees, they NEVER would have purchased the company to begin with.
One of the reasons the previous company was unprofitable was because wages were too high.
It was the employee union that put Hostess under so I have no sympathy for them. Consider Hostess a start-up company right now; they can’t afford to pay those top salaries.
Really? You think a fork truck driver making $16/hr broke the bank?
Good post.
Either get a job locally that pays better or move to an area where pay is better. This is a NEW COMPANY and if you don’t like the wages don’t work there. I assume this is a right to work state.
Had the scum union not pushed the original company over the edge to bankruptcy the workers might have still been there at their original salaries.
I kinda have a problem with a guy who hasn’t bothered to develop any additional skills beyond his forklift driving skills in 22 years.
Whats it take to become a master forklift operator in a bakery? 20 years? Or maybe 6 months?
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