Two weeks less work means they can start their summer job two weeks early, or do some other project two weeks longer. Or, they can vacation two weeks longer. It's not fair to call that a "pay cut" any more than if you buy a gallon of milk for $4 and the next day you buy a half gallon of milk for $2. Would you say "they are selling milk for half price?" (no!)
The union leaders love to take advantage of that ambiguity between "pay" and "rate of pay" and try to get sympathy by exaggerating their "suffering." The Manteca Bulletin should either start talking to both sides of the issue or open a book on economics.
p.s. I almost forgot. They call the "black arm bands" a mark of "solidarity" and the press repeats this. No, it's not a mark of bullying or intimidation... it's "solidarity." You know, they are all sticking together to "help you" by providing less education and to "help" their own members by getting by demanding some of them be fired.
Right: Armband thrown in trash by wearer shortly after proclaiming they were all wearing the armbands "in solidarity."
The Bulletin repeats the 8 percent exaggeration in the "editorial."
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the editor would say if they decided to cut the school year from 180 days to 90 days? Would he call that a 50 percent pay cut?