Paid Time Off Better Than a Raise - Granite Grok

Paid Time Off Better Than a Raise

Call of Duty - Infinte Welfare -S.MacDonald 2016-05-31In a recent survey of warehouse workers,

An overwhelming 87.5% of respondents prefer PTO (Paid time Off) over the equivalent in pay increases—a reminder, if nothing else perhaps, of the importance of work/life balance.

Fight for Fifteen might want to consider fighting for days off instead of for higher hourly wages.

Wait. That would run counter the point of the movement. It is not nor was it ever about some fairy tale “living wage” for hourly wage workers. To earn any salary you have to have a job. Raising the cost of an hour of labor by force would mean fewer workers with any wage at all. Those people would be living on welfare, (creating more government dependents).

No, Fight for Fifteen is about union wages and union bosses. They want to drive up pay to collect more dues. That means more money to organize and support politicians who protect them and their (conveniently enough) subset of unemployable “supporters” in the welfare state, whom unions will claim they are speaking for, even when they are the ones who put them there.

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