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| SharynS |
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:22 pm
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Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 2881 Location: the 'puter |
contributed by John Reimann
Northern California carpenters have long complained about how their wages lag behind both the cost of living and the wages of other building trades workers. At present, our $32 per hour is as much as 25% less than the wages of many of the other trades. Also, our wages have not kept up with carpenters' living expenses. In the immediate bay area, houses typically sell for $500,000. In order to escape these massive prices, many carpenters have moved up to 100 miles away, where houses are cheaper. Now, they are being hit with the price of gas (close to $3.50 per gallon). On top of all this, almost all of the wage increases of recent years has gone towards keeping our pension and health care funds solvent. So it is, that when the Regional Council leadership announced a contract extension (to extend the current agreement until 2012), the wage increase of $1.00 to $1.50 per hour per year was not exactly met with great enthusiasm. On top of this, the union leadership proposes giving up the eight hour day for four ten hour days and a voluntary make-up day on the off day and/or Saturday in case of rain. The leaflet. read more... _________________ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. - Salman Rushdie |
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