Re: Labor Board Issues Three Complaints Against WW1

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 06:20 PM 8/2/2002, Cooper Fox wrote:

>Why would the announcers and crew expect to get paid
>anywhere near what the service costs the user?
>
>
> > Specifically, the
> > Labor Board says that as part of SmartRoutes' $4.5
> > million contract with
> > the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to provide traffic
> > information, the
> > company charges $58 per hour for full-time traffic
> > information but pays
> > the employees who provide the data only $13 per
> > hour

I think it's more to illustrate that the charge is high but the wages are 
barely living-wage for Boston.   Sort of "We're poor and management is 
getting rich off this!"   It's not terribly grounded in reality but it 
scores sympathy points with Joe Public.


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