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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Wages were cut almost in half and pensions lost, which sounds like it should be a savings. However, after a few years the contracts were close to the same cost due to fewer bidders on the contracts as they couldn't find labour for that cheap
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I've been friends for a long time with a family where the parents are immigrants who worked in janitorial at the hospital. I wouldn't say my impression is that they were overpaid and underworked.
I'm a pretty free market guy, but I don't think trying to save small amounts of money by lowering wages at the very bottom of the system is likely to make any material difference and it will really hurt those people.
If it turns out we can have one 300k/year administrator instead of a multi-person 300k/year each board then great. But trying to squeeze the folks at $18/hr down to $16.50 (or whatever the exact numbers are) doesn't seem like the way to go to me. It probably won't work and in the mean time will cause a lot of pain to those least able to deal with it.