The Boeing contract for over 32,000 workers in Washington and Oregon expires next month, and workers have voted to sanction a strike. Their complaints include low pay, frozen pensions, and mismanagement that has resulted in deadly disasters for the company.
More per hour.
Sadly a lot of these guys will put up with the crushing hours because they need the overtime money to make ends meet. 95 cents works out to about 115 dollars a month before taxes.
19 bucks an hour for 19 days…
15 of those days are 8 hours of straight time each, about 2300 dollars. There are approximately 90 hours remaining of overtime at at least time and a half, some of which is almost certainly double time, but even if it isn’t, is 2500 dollars. Almost 5000 dollars in 3 weeks, verses the 2400 dollars they’d make at the department store for the entire month.