Re:RE: Labor Board Issues Three Complaints Against WW1

[tklaundry@juno.com]

--- Aaron 'Bishop' Read <aread@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> That said, I think $13/hr is a shamefully low wage
> to be paying your staff 
> for that kind of work.

Wage rates are set by the market.  If a business can
get someone to capably do a job for X dollars per
hour, that is what they will pay even if they could
afford to pay twice that amount.  It's basic supply
and demand.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

That hypothisis may have been true in years past when we used to talk about Boston radio, but it is no longer as cut and dry as all that.  WW1 is Boston's ONLY source for traffic.  Employees have no alternative source of employment if they want to remain in their chosen profession, that would probably be a major reason they organized to begin with.  The days of "If you don't like what they're paying you then get another gig" are gone, there is no other place to go.  $13 an hour (based on a 40 hour week) is $520 a week.  IIRC each employee is responsible for a number of radio stations as well as providing information to the state so the amount of money talked about in the earlier posting that the state is paying WW1 for service is only one of several sources of income.  I don't know if WW1 is a trade or a paid service, but either way there is a significant source of "other" income involved.  Remember the old days when you worked for ONE station...WW1 employees work for several !
and are paid not as if they are working in a top 10 market in the country, but as if they are middle market novices.  Go somewhere else, okay, where?
df