Posted on 07/29/2012 4:05:36 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
ALBANY -- New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand support an increase to the federal minimum wage, while a similar proposal is stalled in Albany.
The Democrats support an increase in the federal minimum wage to $9.80 an hour. The current federal minimum wage is $7.25.
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How about $25,000 per hour?
A postal working today makes a base wage of say $14.00 over minimum wage, or about $21 per hour(a figure which is too low, but just for example purposes).
Next, a hike in the minimum wage of $1.50 takes place. That means the new base wage for the postal or government worker's next paycheck and pension accruals just rose from $21 per hour, to $22.50.
Get it now?
Just a crass political move on the part of Chuck U.
He knows it isn’t going anywhere, that’s what makes it so easy to promote and it provides a talking point to encourage the votes of his constituency.
Is he going to be putting it up for a vote in the Senate?
Nancy, Nancy!!
Come quick, there’s a vote on the house floor.
I learned something new today. Many thanks!
But, I think you picked the wrong guy to try and reason with. “38 years with the USPS”
Secondly, the chart you looked at is from 2008, and you used a number applicable to only a handful of part time flexible mail handlers. Not even sure they have that position anymore.
March 2011 saw a level 5 carrier ~ on the average making about $50,000 to $53,000 dependingon service time, and on top of that he gets life insurance and aforesaid medical insurance, and that kicks him up to $66,000 without any difficulty.
There are also supervisors and other employees who make more.
The effective hourly rate for that carrier would be about $33.00 per hour, but if you want to compute it out discounting for days off (which you don't get paid for on minimum wage jobs), he's up to well over $35.00 per hour.
Cost to the company is more like $50.00 per hour ~ all things considered ~ roof over head, safe vehicles to drive on the job (for carriers), air conditioning in summer (for clerks) and heat in the winter.
USPS is not currently hiring very many people of course, so starting wage isn't even in the picture there.
Minimum wage doesn't have built in pay raises. it just is.
BTW, worked at USPS headquarters for 4 decades and not once did I hear anyone ever advance the idea that postal pay should be pegged to minimum wage. After all, it's nearly 100% unionized. Currently they are still at the beginning of a 5 year agreement so their pay for the next few years is FIXED. It has no financial or time linkage of any kind to minimum wage.
Why not do it just in NY?
Her biggest complaint is how supervisors or managers try to make things a living hell for many workers. Her suggestion was that they want them(hourly workers) to quit.
Why not $50? Don’t tempt them. Keep in mind that the reason they want to raise it to that level is that the going wage in NY is already higher than that level so that it won’t affect their State. Their strategy is to fix it so that other States won’t be able to compete against NY for those jobs because those employers will need to pay as much in other States as they do in NY.
we need drug testing for Congress along with an IQ test.
The minium wage increase will cost employees an extra $100, based on a 40 hour week.
You are right about the position being a flexible position. Each week she was at a different office location. That’s why I called her a floater. Yes they still have them. Semi-rural areas as far as I know. The ones where the carriers are rural contractors, who for some reason are allowed to rdive a regular car down the highway from the passenger seat! So much for seatbelt laws..........
“Is that Tobey Maguire as Keanu Reeves on SNL’s Celebrity Jeopardy?”
nice obscure reference catch.
Your neighbors pay is NOT linked to minimum wage. There is, in fact, a contract with the APWU regarding rates of pay for everyone who works as a postal clerk (which is what it sounds like she's doing)
APWU represents the clerks and NALC represents the carriers. There's an association that represents Postmasters and another that represents Supervisors.
I always worked at a much higher level than the crafts (As they are known).
http://www.apwu.org/dept/ind-rel/irpayinfo.htmn explains it all. Your neighbor was undoubtedly referring to COLA ~ or cost of living adjustments. i'll guarantee you postal COLA happens much faster than changes in federal minimum wage! So if she saw a link it was a KOINKYDINK ~
Thank you. Useless things take up the vast majority of my knowledge.
“Thank you. Useless things take up the vast majority of my knowledge.”
Not a bad thing, my buddy went on the Weakest Link on a whim and won a good sum of money. He is in charge of drones flying over Afghanistan, though he can’t tell me anymore about it.
The poor are among the biggest advocates of higer minimun wages. They don’t understand economics, but who does?
You can lighten up on us upstaters. Albany and NYC can be their own little hellhole. LOL
in other words... a GOOD hamburger (not fast food crap) will cost about an hour of labor for minimum wage workers
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