Boeing strike: entry-level workers cannot live on their wage. “At Panda Express, they’re making as much as a grade-three mechanic”
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A sleepy morning idea - forcefully convert Boeing into a cooperative. It being strategically important and all.
Fuck people that think like this.
"I only get paid as much as a fast food worker and I can't afford to live. Only I deserve a living wage, not a lower person like a fast food worker"
Fuck you and fuck that, if you work, you should be paid a living wage. Simple as that without any exceptions.
They're not complaining that a panda Express employee is making too much, they're complaining that an aircraft mechanic is making too little.
If an aircraft mechanic, who needs long term training and a high level of skill, can walk off the job and get paid the same working fast food, then that's a problem.
If a fast food worker doesn't get paid a living wage, that's also a problem, but a different one, and has nothing to do with their argument.
I understand the logic on how an aircraft mechanic should be paid more. It has nothing to do with panda express. That part of the argument can go. "I'm not being paid enough for my specialty, we should bargain for better rates" is enough.
If that's what the market is doing, then an aircraft mechanic should go to work for Panada Express. That's how this system works. Until people start playing the game, nothing changes it seems... well hopefully union gets a fat W here but you get my point... how did Union let this shit this bad?
Only reason why Boeing is even in this position is because planes are poorly built and they killed a guy so the peasants ready to eat them, I bet if not for these factors, we would not even be having this conversation right now.
"if you work, you should be paid a living wage. Simple as that without any exceptions."
Then why are you bitching at the engineers who are asking to be paid a living wage?
I think its pretty easy to determine what I was saying. They do deserve to be paid more, but it's not because panda express is paying more. Shitting on someone else in the workforce does not help you get a raise, it helps you stay divided against each other instead of super wealthy fucking you both over.
I won't lie, seeing an Aldi worker can now potentially make more than me does sting but, not because the Aldi worker doesn't deserve money, because I do have a more valuable position in my company than a cashier does at Aldi and with that in mind I see how much my company under values me.
Does that make sense? The mechanics hear how much education and skill they need from Boeing and then hear that's the market rate for... a fast food worker. Arguably, a fast food worker needs more interpersonal skills than a mechanic and has to constantly be the face of the business but for Boeing to land fat government contacts and then say they value their mechanics as much as Panda Express does it's line cooks, well, it hurts.
it does make sense.
|I see how much my company under values me.
This should be enough, looking at the positions pay in the past and how that's adjusted for cost of living and inflation should be all the needed argument for a better wage.
Washington State average Panda Express pay is $28/hr