Apple hires 800 at $8/hr

[xring100]

$8 an hour is better than being on welfare from a tax payer perspective. These are entry level jobs that could be done in china for peanuts. The unfair trade agreements we have with China and other countries make it very tough. We have to worry about osha. All epa regulations that go all the way back to power generation and mining. We should put a value added tax on imported goods from countries that don't have similar standards.

 

[Spindifferent]

Hmmm...

Don't see any jobs posted at Elk Grove:

 

[ultrarunner]

My God Sister started working at Apple in 1980 as a summer job between her junior and senior high school year.

She stayed with only a High School education until her daughter was born a few years later...

Never made much hourly.

What she did do, on the advice of her father, was invest the max in the company stock program and it was enough for her to buy a modest home in Silicon Valley in her twenties.

Her experience was not unusual and sometimes there is a lot more than the hourly wage when starting an entry level job.

 

[Scooby074]

$8/hr is not a livable wage. Minimum wage here is $10.30/hr and its not nearly enough.

Apple will be like walmart and be expecting Government and Taxpayers to be subsidizing their low wage.

 

[ultrarunner]

Wage is expected to increase here too...

Don't know if it will be $10 statewide...

It's already over $10 in San Francisco and must include health insurance otherwise the wage minimum goes up.

 

[tcreeley]

"Before you go bashing company's, they are the backbone of America. With out them there would be no America."

There is a reasonable balance between the above and the below:

People are real the backbone of America. Without them there would be no businesses.

When Apple, Walmart, Exxon-Mobil, etc. can come home is body bag, your statement would be correct. Economic systems exist to serve people. Businesses are a means to that end, not a religion.

:thumbsup::thumbsup: Well said.

 

[tcreeley]

$8 an hour is better than being on welfare from a tax payer perspective. These are entry level jobs that could be done in china for peanuts. The unfair trade agreements we have with China and other countries make it very tough. We have to worry about osha. All epa regulations that go all the way back to power generation and mining. We should put a value added tax on imported goods from countries that don't have similar standards.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Crazy that we compete with 30 cents/hr. wages from China. Import tariffs is the answer.

 

[MikePA]

This from the world's most valued company with how many billions in the bank? That's a whopping net total of $1,280 per month without overtime.

The value of the company is irrelevant to what they pay. With that logic if a company is losing money, the employees should pay the company. People are paid what their skills are worth in the market, except when a union or a govt gets involved.

 

[creekbend]

One only has to take a good look at the Profits that "NIKE" made from the Sweat Shop Workers in other Countries. I agree that Corporations have to prosper, but once this behavior was practiced here in America, in the early days of the "Industrial Revolution". Just a thought.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Perhaps they are entry level jobs or may offer health insurance.