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Originally Posted by Dion
Those strikers were making $20 an hour. They'd need more than $200 a week to make up for lost wages  |
20 bucks an hour at 37 hours is about 600 a week. 10 bucks an hour for 60 hours is 600 bucks an hour. Sure they need to 'work' aka sit there on there butts for 3 more hours a day, but it means they will meet there financial needs.
Compare that to what the strikers for at Cargill (in 1997), I think the top rate was about $15 for 40 hours a week, which is about $500, and instead taking home $215.
This puts the strikers in a much better position to bargain, whereas Cargill just had to sit on their butt and wait for peoples rent to come due.