*Part time wage increases- part time wages NEED increased to stay competitive and to help retain people. It seems like young people now do not want to work and are not thinking about benefits so they need more motivation to stay instead of getting a similar pay working somewhere else for way less stress and effort. Maybe it would help if the time to get benefits was reduced more. I believe its at 9 months now... it could help with rentention to reduce it to 6 or maybe even 3 months then you get benefits. Also when i did preload alot of long timers said they always vote down the contract proposals because there is nothing that really changes for them.
Dropping Healthcare from 9 months to 3 won't help with retention. Most are going to quit before their first month.
The only things that will help retention are a competitive starting wage, and a meaningful wage increase YOY. Right now they get a
ty starting rate and they get locked out of the GWI in favor of the insultingly low new hire progression. Why do they only get a 50 cent raise this year while everyone else gets a dollar? Because
them I guess.
Personally, I think part time should have a 4 year progression (to coincide with the end of schooling) and an actual top rate ($25-27). But that is probably heresy around here.
