I remember the McDonald’s I worked at gave everyone raises right before minimum wage went up to 7.25 to make it seem like it was their choice.
I was struggling to make ends meet back then. I had a shitty car and tiny apartment with a roommate and just scraped by. No fucking clue how people are making it work today. I have a decent job now and I’m still just scraping by.
I will say that at my current job, remote IT work is in the contract. Because we’re union. And getting it out of the contract and risking shutdown because so many critical systems are run by people far away? Not a good idea. I hope it’s here to stay.
I remember the McDonald’s I worked at gave everyone raises right before minimum wage went up to 7.25 to make it seem like it was their choice.
I was struggling to make ends meet back then. I had a shitty car and tiny apartment with a roommate and just scraped by. No fucking clue how people are making it work today. I have a decent job now and I’m still just scraping by.
We need unions.
You really really do. I don’t mean to target you personally here. This is meant for everyone reading:
If you have time to hang out on Lemmy, then you have a couple mins looking up what unions the industry you’re in has or is trying to setup.
Just learn, I’m not even asking that anyone do anything… but if you know more about the situation where you live, maybe you can help people.
No corpo is gonna do it for you. It’s workers for workers.
Thanks for putting the caveats in there.
I will say that at my current job, remote IT work is in the contract. Because we’re union. And getting it out of the contract and risking shutdown because so many critical systems are run by people far away? Not a good idea. I hope it’s here to stay.
they aren’t. tens of thousands of homeless people in just cali alone.