I feel you. I just wanted to share the irony. Apparently, the argument in the Bernie Staff is that the salaries are comparative to the other campaigns. This would be a fair statement if he were not promising a $15 minimum wage, yet not pay his workers at least that amount.
I think Bernie is starting to go poof…
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There is a difference between someone paid salary and hourly pay. The more hours they work, the more likely their salary, when converted to hourly pay, will dip under 15/hr.
This trades low wages for under staffed working conditions. Is that actually better?
Bernie can’t really fall back on “I’m paying my employees more than 15/hr, I’m just working them to the bone so the average is less”
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Not to mention the staffers union recently turned down a pay raise, and pay negotiations are continuing.
It’s a great headline though.
And I believe they get pretty good health insurance.
That’s how salary works. Higher base and you work till the work is done. In fact people pay to go to college and become professionals so they get the privilege of working for salary.
Makes me wonder if an efficiency/incentive pay type of guy (Jack Welch) ever ran for office. 1099 everyone and pay for performance.
You get $1.50 for every contact card you get (email/phone/name/address).
You make 5% commission on all donations you secure.
Etc…
I’m a “young professional” and almost everyone I know would rather be hourly over salaried… The few exceptions being folks with ownership stakes or in a top MGMT role. It’s real easy to get burnt out when you’re young, ambitous/motivated, and salaried bc at some point it will start feeling like you are working for free.
Also, Bernie’s staffers get “platinum level” health insurance. Anyone know what that is specifically?
When l saw it a couple of days ago, l thought Pop goes the weasel (democrat).
Sounds like a great incentive for scams and subterfuge. Might want to steer clear of this. Commission based pay structures pretty much always attract the shitheads of the world.
Salaried employees are always working. That’s the point.
I thought Pop the first day a single Dem put up there name. If Bernie wasn’t the CLEAR frontrunner day 1, he was toast.
Dude needs to hang it up.
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Just my $0.02, but I’ve never seen a bill that was better off for being 20000 pages long.
Some of the most beneficial acts in the UK were 80-100 pages long.
I think that the legislature should be prohibited from using the word processor.
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He’s still got a kingmaker proportion of the vote, hence why he remains. I’d have thought y’all would remember the 2016 RNC bloodbath.
Edit: I actually think Warren has the momentum right now. If Harris or Bernie would drop out, I think she becomes the nominee.
“We know our campaign offers wages and benefits competitive with other campaigns, as is shown by the latest fundraising reports,”
I’m just going to revel for a moment at the irony of a man who spent 45+ years of public life as a registered socialist arguing that it is the market for labor that determines wages in a dispute with his workers.
Also he’s going to cut hours to make sure the pay is >$15/hr. “Guess what boys and girls, what used to take you 12 hours now needs to get done in 8. Get your asses in gear! Double time!”
One could easily say they probably could do in 8 hours what they do in 12.
Well that would depend on the employee. I’m sure someone at the bernie campaign is a true believer and really busting his/her ass every moment they’re at work. Those type of people tend to get other people’s workload in addition to their own. Now they’ll have less time to get it done.
The slackers will keep slacking, just with less ass in seat time at work.
You can design things in a way that has checks and balances to prevent the ‘always be closing’/‘turning noes into yeses’ crowd from being crooked. There’s a reason the car salesman at the dealership doesn’t take the check from you.
Everyone at nucor steel is on incentive based pay. Pretty cool place. They have 30-50 percent less supervisors than union shops.
I meant if he doesn’t want to be the reason a Republican wins the white house again. Love them or hate them, either of them would have dumpsterfucked Trump without the infighting.
Shakes out to a win for the employees though. Same pay at less hours. Work conditions aren’t likely to actually change, less he gets the “slavedriver” tag.
Nah you really can’t. For every process you put in place, a comm based salesman is going to laugh his ass off all the way to the bank at your plans. There’s ALWAYS a workaround.
This isn’t viable for virtually all industries though. Even less so when you start to look at the number of quality candidates available in most locales. We service 2 steel companies at work and do their hiring for quite a few plants (one has more sales, less profit, other is ‘fairly small’). The ability to even find people that can pass a drug test in this economy is pretty reliant on locale.
Nucor has hella impressive financials though. There’s a couple in my back yard and I’ve never heard anything but positive things about working there. Just hella hours and backbreaking work.
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Saves millions on pension liabilities.
I’ve been in their plants on half a dozen occasions. After visiting several US Steel, AK Steel, Arcelormittal, ATI etc… Nucor is like an entire different planet.
Also do you mainly recruit in Ohio? Might explain the pee test problems. I found out punxatawny in PA is just as bad here recently.
Why would an socialist “democrat,” who has spent most of his tenure as an independent, care if the Dems lose? Beyond his agenda and legacy, I scarcely imagine he cares overmuch.
Edit: a college friend of mine is a New Hampshire Democrat (his mother was a state legislator) and neither he, nor his parents, like Bernie overmuch.
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Nah we recruit globally. 100+ countries filling over 100k roles a month. We’ve added a couple large clients lately so that number is probably higher now.
Edit: our steel clients are all USA though
Assuming he actually cares about the issues he pushes for, id imagine he sees them much more likely to happen under a Democrat.
Unless Trump’s on board with green energy and worker pay and somehow I missed it