• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    The starting wages for drivers is $16.20/hr part time. It’s a joke. That’s fucking retail wages.

    At least they already agreed to stop sending drivers out to die in trucks without air conditioning.

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      TANSTAFL. If the load don’t pay, don’t haul it. If a job doesn’t pay enough, find another job. Or starve. Their choice.

      Sounds like they are more devoted to the company in question than the company is to them.

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        If the job doesn’t pay enough, strike! If the boss wants me to starve then he can do the fucking job himself.

        I bet you want UPS drivers to become owner-operators. Gotta love sweatshops on wheels!

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          Sounds like you’re more loyal to your “boss” then “the boss” is to you.

          I once gave my loyalty to a company. I was laid off 7 months later. Now it’s “You want my work? You’ll pay my rates or you can take your business elsewhere.”

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            lol wtf are you talking about? They’re striking! That’s not loyalty to the company, they’re taking what the company owes them.

            Why go through the trouble of finding a new job when you can twist your boss’s arm and force them to make your job better?

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              I think this one’s a lost cause. Don’t worry. One day, pay will increase magically and they’ll have no idea what happened.