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Originally Posted by Rathji
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.
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First, 37 hrs @ $20/hr is more like $750 per week. Second, if you spread those 60 hours over the same 5-day period that they would have worked 37, you're looking at sitting on your butt for an extra 4.5 hours per day. That's equivalent to working more extra hours in one day of striking than the entire weekly increase in the contract.
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Originally Posted by LockedOut
Workers may have been working 40+ hours per week anyways but with the new agreement they would have 3 hours of OT revert to 3 hours of regular pay. This is just speculation on my part.
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I'm sure you're right. If the OT pay was 1.5 or 2 times the regular pay then it would be a big cost savings for the company to increase weekly hours from 37 to 40 hours. That would explain why the company is willing to shell out such a big raise during a recession. However, if that's the case, it would be greedy for the workers to go on strike over that since many people aren't working full time, let alone OT right now.