Costco Increases Pay to Over $30 an Hour for Most Store Workers
Costco Increases Pay to Over $30 an Hour for Most Store Workers
Costco Wholesale Corp. is raising pay for most of its hourly US workers to more than $30 an hour amid contract talks with unionized employees.
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I have a feeling this is some anti union move, given it's happening during negotiations with the Teamsters. Perhaps it's a smaller increase than what the union members want, meant to weaken their resolve?
Costco is one of the most pro worker employers in the US
Edit: every workplace should still be unionized
Right now... it's "one of the most pro worker employers in the US" right now.
If they have no problem with being such, then they shouldn't mind a few collectively bargained contacts which ensure they stay that way.
And that's the thing, from what I read, they've been difficult during the ongoing negotiations.
Yep. Most companies are being huge fucks about labor relations; bigger than they've been in quite a while. The post-WWII "gentlemen's agreement" between labor and capital (as pathetic as it was) has been completely abandoned. They're back on some gilded age bullshit... sounds likely we're gonna have to do a general strike.
If you read the actual article, there are two things that stand out:
The changes apply to employees at non-union locations.
and
Other benefits for non-union workers include an additional week of vacation after 30 years of employment and vacation for new employees during their first year.
So from my understanding you may very well be correct, instead of trying to block unions through negative reinforcement, they try to block them by rewarding you for not joining one.