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In reply to the discussion: If a person is working 40 hours a week, they should be paid enough to live off of. [View all]MrYikes
(720 posts)2. So everyone shop at Costco
where the average worker makes $20 an hour. That is good management. Spend your money there. Take away the power from other stores and businesses.
Unions are old school. The Borg is the today. Rolling sudden strikes that last a week and move on.
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If a person is working 40 hours a week, they should be paid enough to live off of. [View all]
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2012
OP
I heard the other day that it was $17 per hour plus benefits and get this:
Live and Learn
Nov 2012
#4
Unions are one of the most effective counterbalances to corporate power...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2012
#5
It sounds like you are challenging the very concept, imagining it as "overwhelming"
whathehell
Nov 2012
#9
No, just asking how it would be defined. It would have to be, wouldn't it?
lightcameron
Nov 2012
#38
I don't get this by zip code or smaller shit, I live in the same economy as someone across town
TheKentuckian
Nov 2012
#11
If you don't have any employees, why are you obsessed with the concept of a living wage?
whathehell
Dec 2012
#58
I live in a town where the cost of living is much higher than it is fifteen miles away.
lightcameron
Nov 2012
#39
You're approaching it backward, it's not about making the wage as low as possible.
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#22
It would have to be calculated more precisely, but roughly how much does it take
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#45
Read the subject line, rough estimate. But, $30 is about $800 a week take home and
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#69
You do realize the Census already has a existing Cost of Living index...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2012
#66
It was a reality during the post war years of The New Deal when labor unions were strong,
whathehell
Nov 2012
#23
I think it was at least 5 yrs ago that I read a study saying there is no county in the US
librechik
Nov 2012
#26
Well I really hope you didn't learn to write like that in our government schools.
Starry Messenger
Nov 2012
#37
Except most of them will just want to cut off the benefits that helps those workers
TheKentuckian
Dec 2012
#62
Unions cant be effective with high unemployment. We need jobs in America. nm
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#46