Apple hires 800 at $8/hr

[Scooby074]

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.

They do.

What's the first thing a company asks for "when theyre loosing money" or threaten to close a plant? Wage concessions. Yet the CEO and the rest of the board still gets their Millions.

 

[troutsqueezer]

It wasn't a written article but a news broadcast from KCRA in Sacramento. While searching for the newscast that I saw, I ran across this one which is similar. It looks like a hiring company held interviews to fill 800 positions at $8/hr. The newscast I saw (Lisa Gonzales) mentioned that it was Apple looking for the workers. This video is slightly different but it still sounds like it is primarily Apple. There isn't much else in Elk Grove, it's pretty small.

Hiring event looks for 800 new employees in Elk Grove | News - KCRA Home

BTW, I retired from Intel which is in the next town. There, you get much better pay even if you are unskilled. They have the money and they recognize that employees are their most valuable asset.

 

[dave1949]

Religion was not mentioned in any way shape or form.

Yes people are the true backbone of America. But with people the company's built America into what it is today.
Not all company's are good or treat people fairly, nor are all bad.

Early on company's, not the government using your tax $$, built the Bridges, railroads, highways, etc. All of these things have advanced out nation to be the #1 in the world.

$8 An hour does not buy in CA does not buy as much as it does in most other states. NY & NJ may be even worse. But it still gives people a chance to earn their own way & get a start.

I am not a big fan of large company's, they put me out of business many years ago & cost me thousands of $$$.
But I do look at the world realistically.

I don't think our viewpoints are that different. Sometimes it is a good idea to define the basic premise of things, even if it sounds simplistic it is still important to recognize. Saying Apple, etc, cannot come home in a body bag is just a reminder that people protect and provide the conditions that allow business to prosper. Businesses never pay the ultimate price for their existence, people do.

I mentioned religion as metaphor only. Some people think we should serve business interests and make the equivalent of sacrificial offerings to businesses, regardless of the ultimate costs to people and society in general. To those people, it is a religion.

Businesses were and are created primarily to facilitate useful trade between people. As such, they exist for the benefit of people. If/when we view businesses as anything other than that, the importance of people in the scheme of priorities is lessened. The over-reach of corporate power that we often see these days is not driven by a desire to improve the quality of people's lives. The goal is to make money, with a more or less blind assumption that all will be well if money is being made.

Sometimes people gain a net benefit from that assumption and sometimes they don't. Corporate profits and the condition of the middle class have been going in opposite directions lately. $8/hour jobs are a part of that. Taken as a starting wage even, if the person gets a 50% raise to $12/hour, ($24,960 annually) they are still going to be scraping by in most places where there are jobs. I don't know how far $25K per year takes a person at that location. I can remember all of the 50% raises I received without using any fingers.

 

[texasjohn]

So, just guessing, everybody is in favor of $10.10 minuimum wage?

 

[MikePA]

Yet the CEO and the rest of the board still gets their Millions.

I didn't say wage concessions, I said pay the company

Yet the CEO and the rest of the board still gets their Millions.

As do the leaders of unions.

Gotta love class warfare.

 

[Spindifferent]

It wasn't a written article but a news broadcast from KCRA in Sacramento. While searching for the newscast that I saw, I ran across this one which is similar. It looks like a hiring company held interviews to fill 800 positions at $8/hr. The newscast I saw (Lisa Gonzales) mentioned that it was Apple looking for the workers. This video is slightly different but it still sounds like it is primarily Apple. There isn't much else in Elk Grove, it's pretty small.

Hiring event looks for 800 new employees in Elk Grove | News - KCRA Home

BTW, I retired from Intel which is in the next town. There, you get much better pay even if you are unskilled. They have the money and they recognize that employees are their most valuable asset.

So it is actually Volt Work Solutions that interviewed more than 1,000 people in Elk Grove and were looking to fill 800 positions. Perhaps you can update the title of this post with the accurate information?

 

[MikePA]

So, just guessing, everybody is in favor of $10.10 minuimum wage?

Those who are in favor of increasing unemployment are.

 

[dave1949]

So it is actually Volt Work Solutions that interviewed more than 1,000 people in Elk Grove and were looking to fill 800 positions. Perhaps you can update the title of this post with the accurate information?

Who pays Volt for their services? Who tells Volt the wage rates for people hired? You are splitting hairs as far as the $8/hour issue is concerned.

Why Apple would hire Volt is worthy of another thread.

 

[Spindifferent]

Who pays Volt for their services? Who tells Volt the wage rates for people hired? You are splitting hairs as far as the $8/hour issue is concerned.

Why Apple would hire Volt is worthy of another thread.

Not splitting hairs at all. There is a world of difference between a company called Volt Work Solutions and a company called Apple. Apple isn't hiring any of these people. Volt is apparently hiring these people and Volt is apparently paying them $8 an hour.

An accurate title to this post would be "Volt Work Solutions hires 800 at $8/hr." based on the information provided.

 

[Scooby074]

I didn't say wage concessions, I said pay the company

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Wage concessions are the employees paying the company. That money was lifted directly from the pockets of the workers.

CEO compensation relative to the blue collar workforce in many companies is outrageous.