Part timers attention !!

[Catatonic]

sorry.i was eating while typing.i meant poor timers.

I guess the timing was poor.

 

[PT Stewie]

I think you would find a very large number of part-timers that like the system the way it is. Most of us aren't planning on staying part-time forever, and we are more than happy to work for cheap now, if it means really high wages after we go full-time.

from my perspective, its more of an investment of time. I would actually take a part-time paycut in the next contract, if it means I will be making even MORE money when I finally go full-time.

just looking at the math;

-spend 7 years making poverty level income as a part-timer,
then 30 years of high income as a full-timer

- or (if we negotiate better pt wages, at the expense of ft wages)

-spend 7 years making just above poverty level as a part-timer,
then 30 years of average income as a full-timer

I'll take some poverty now, if it means success in the future!

KMA

 

[flipstyle9]

You are about 30 years too late. That started in '77 and continues.

I guess you could lose whatever little you have left.

Agreed, the only way they can afford to pay our full timers the highest wages in our industry is by the cheap back breaking labor of part timers.

its kind of weird to think that 2 people with the same seniority doing the same job, like unloading, make two very different hourly wages just because one is full time and the other part time

Yah we are breaking down our bodies for peanuts