Apple retail union organizers want workers to be paid at least $30 per hour

[earl n water]

That man said "covid checks and raising the minimum wage to 15" is the cause of today's inflation

 

[Rekkapryde]

Ship is sinking, staff quarters are already flooded so they're on your floor trying to get to the upper deck, the upper deck is hopping what's left of the lifeboats, evacuating the ship while telling you the ship is fine. Yet instead of realizing the situation for what it is and getting on code, you're asking why don't they go back to their quarters, find the tallest piece of furniture to stand on so they can at least keep their heads above water, just so they can continue to serve your meals.. fukking morons



Is this why companies are deciding to up compensation instead of replacing said "easily replaced" workers?

It's almost as if they've got leverage in deciding en masse that they'll no longer work for slave wages.


In theory, yes. Yet, there a lot of these skilled people are now spending upwards of 50% of their take home on housing alone. Not to mention the increase in the price of goods and services across the board while pay has not kept up with inflation... but please continue to tell me about these highly skilled people making these high wages.


Pray tell, why are my tax dollars going towards securing housing and food for employees who have a full time job working for largest companies in the richest country in the world, while said companies are raking in record profits year over year?



So let's suppose everyone now acquires these magical skills and are now in a position to leave retail work ats they now have the skills to finally demand better wages. With the influx of all these newly available bodies to complete all these skilled tasks/jobs, what do you suppose happens to compensation of those highly skilled people who were getting paid high wages?

If everyone is skilled, then no one is skilled. It just creates a higher barrier for entry into the workforce and shifts the power back to employers. Do you understand basic supply and demand?

Needed to be broken down.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

30/hr is the same amount as a new grad nurse in IL. Matter of fact that’s more then what most nursing are making

I mean 30/hr you’re making more/same then many careers that are needed and looked to as “heroes” in the public eye.
Nursing, Teachers, Firefighters, Police officers, social workers……

Tell them to go to their union for a raise.

 

[itsyoung!!]

Apple should counter with minimum wage for all employees but up to $50/hour based on incentives/commission. You want more money? Ok work for it then. The few times ive walked into apple stores were 0/10 experiences. Never greeted once, the employee usually has little knowledge, and they usually come off arrogant.


Ive noticed, in ANY job, just not apple, employees just want money given to them. For the bare minimum. Apple pays that cause lets be honest they know for every 1-2 employee that really deserves that, they have 5-6 lazy ass employees just skating by getting paid for mediocre work. They want top dollar but arent top dollar employees.


As an employer i run into this issue all the time. If I offer someone $150 to host an event and they counter they need $300-400. Ill always say , ok , ill pay that but then i need these requirements met, in which they always reply “i cant promise you those results”. So you want higher pay, but cant promise me results that would at least break me even on your pay out?

Workers never look at it like that though

 

[Bubba T]

Man, I swear only broke people speak like this.

Have you ever worked at apple? You act is if all they do is simply sell phones which is far from true and if that’s the case you can say that about any company that sells products or services.

The funniest thing about all this shyt is that the higher level work you go through, the less you actually work “hard”. How many of us busted our tail from “low skill” jobs and now work cushy office jobs while tripling our salaries?

 

[Moose_Greyjoy]

Tell them to go to their union for a raise.

I can only speak for nursing. But majority of nursing is not unionized. I’ve never worked for a union and I think the Chicago area only has 2 hospitals that are union. Good luck with suburban hospitals.
Also majority of these fields have a “non-profit” model, which I dunno how that factors into any of this.
I personally see a future where healthcare fails in this country………..

 

[African Peasant]

#s do matter

I'm all for ensuring wages paid align to cost of living. No need to sell me on that.

From what I glean from the article, the pay range today is ~ $17-30

What's being asked for is near ~75% increase for the lowest paid tier

Sure hope they get it. I was just asking what's the justification for such an increase? Just cost of living and/or have the skills/qualifications required changed over the years.

Costs will be passed down to consumers

Consumers can keep buying or drop the product. If they drop the product, the owners will have to lower their profit.

No one lose when workers are getting a fair share of the pie, except robbers barons.

 

[African Peasant]

Simple people put time and effort into getting skilled.
You think they are not going to have an issue with someone not skilled getting the same as them

It does not take anything from them. so it's not an issue, outside of entitlement.

 

[aXiom]

The funniest thing about all this shyt is that the higher level work you go through, the less you actually work “hard”. How many of us busted our tail from “low skill” jobs and now work cushy office jobs while tripling our salaries?

I don't think this is a fair assumption.

Jobs that require critical thinking usually tend to pay more than manual labor jobs, with manual labor jobs that expose you to a higher degree of injury/harm being the exception.

There are also the responsibility, experience and blast radius factors. If you fukkup an order at an apple store, you may inconvenience a single customer. The most that may happen if the customer wasn't satisfied with the experience, is your manager getting involved and offering some kind of discount to the customer at best, the customer taking to social media at worst. But that where it stops. Total damage may be in the hundreds or thousands of $. In contrast to some dev or infra engineer fukking up some bit of code or making a typo that got past testing/staging and now icloud or some other apple service is down for hours and your mistake is now affecting millions of people. Total damage in the hundred of thousands to millions of $. Sure the physical toil may be less at that level, but it's much harder work.

 

[Real]

I’m just paying attention to all the weirdos that are against this in the thread

 

[Wild self]

30/hr is the same amount as a new grad nurse in IL. Matter of fact that’s more then what most nursing are making

I mean 30/hr you’re making more/same then many careers that are needed and looked to as “heroes” in the public eye.
Nursing, Teachers, Firefighters, Police officers, social workers……

They (RNs) should get paid more in 2022. A lot more. $30 ain't enough. Should be $65 an hour.

 

[boriquaking]

I worked in Apple Retail. The job isn’t that difficult but it’s exhausting dealing with people all day. They deserve it.


Its not like a regular retail job.

 

[SAINT]

fukk that, Cart Attendants should be the ones getting paid that.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

30 per is crazy

if they succeed this will crash the economy lol
every job gon want 30 beans and hour

So it seems, y'all don't give a fukk about da economy till folks start tryna get paid decent wages. Funny how that works.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

shyt is incredible how cats are caping for this nonsenselical shyt thats been going on for decades now.

A thread fulla bootlickin' ass crabs. Any news of folks tryna get decent wages ALWAYS brings 'em out.