The strikers include respiratory therapists, licensed vocational nurses, surgical technicians, and imaging technologists—many of whom have endured nearly eight months without a contract.
Welcome to the passionate industry. Game devs, healthcare workers and anybody in social work. Majority of these people will be taken advantage of because of capitalisms fine print.
Anyone who’s passionate enough about their job to not only be in it for the pay and benefits will be extra likely to be shafted by the corporate overlords on pay and benefits 🤬
Thats only half of the story. Most of these medical workers are making over 2x what the average service worker is trying to survive on. The fact that they make that much when so many other people dont is part of what keeps their wages deflated. Theyll say if you dont like making $35 an hour then go flip burgers for $17
If medical workers “cant survive” on $35/hr then obviously the average person is well beyond fucked, but the average person is expected to survive on half that much. And so long as there is a cycle of people attempting to make it on <$20/hr wages then no one is gonna raise wages for skilled work
More medical workers should do this. It’s infuriating how companies abuse these workers’ dedication to saving human lives to abuse them.
Welcome to the passionate industry. Game devs, healthcare workers and anybody in social work. Majority of these people will be taken advantage of because of capitalisms fine print.
See also: teachers.
Anyone who’s passionate enough about their job to not only be in it for the pay and benefits will be extra likely to be shafted by the corporate overlords on pay and benefits 🤬
Firefighters. EMTs too. They aren’t paid enough for what they do. Never have been. People who quite literally make a career of helping others.
Thats only half of the story. Most of these medical workers are making over 2x what the average service worker is trying to survive on. The fact that they make that much when so many other people dont is part of what keeps their wages deflated. Theyll say if you dont like making $35 an hour then go flip burgers for $17
If medical workers “cant survive” on $35/hr then obviously the average person is well beyond fucked, but the average person is expected to survive on half that much. And so long as there is a cycle of people attempting to make it on <$20/hr wages then no one is gonna raise wages for skilled work
20 hour workers should work on organizing and striking BC that’s the only way anything is changing for them.