Team Store Workers To Picket On Black Friday

[Can_of_corn]

Remember when the O's ownership was pro-worker?

https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2023/11/21/orioles-team-store-workers-picket-wages.html

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The workers also want a raise to get them closer to what stadium workers in other cities make. She said Camden Yards workers make $15.25 an hour, around $6 below the average hourly wage for concession workers on the East Coast.

This isn't an issue with the team but the agent the team has decided to do business with, in this case Fanatics.

 

[Going Underground]

15 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Remember when the O's ownership was pro-worker?

https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2023/11/21/orioles-team-store-workers-picket-wages.html

This isn't an issue with the team but the agent the team has decided to do business with, in this case Fanatics.

 

When?

Baseball Stadium Cleaners in Baltimore Fight for a Living Wage and Win | Labor Notes
https://labornotes.org/2007/08/baseball-stadium-cleaners-baltimore-fight-living-wage-and-win

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Going Underground said:

When?

Baseball Stadium Cleaners in Baltimore Fight for a Living Wage and Win | Labor Notes
https://labornotes.org/2007/08/baseball-stadium-cleaners-baltimore-fight-living-wage-and-win

1995.

I'm old.

[Going Underground]

Baltimore Orioles, Oakland A’s Under Federal Investigation For Wage Theft – ThinkProgress
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/baltimore-orioles-oakland-as-under-federal-investigation-for-wage-theft-c3ac2eb264aa/

[Sports Guy]

Imagine thinking you should be paid $20/hr to do nothing.

Let them picket. I’m sure you can find a few chimps to do their job.

[Moose Milligan]

Imagine thinking you're way better than anyone works a minimum wage job and they're beneath you, almost to the point that you think of their intellect as non-human.

[Can_of_corn]

48 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Imagine thinking you should be paid $20/hr to do nothing.

Let them picket. I’m sure you can find a few chimps to do their job.

What species of Primate did the team use to replace you?

 

[Sports Guy]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

What species of Primate did the team use to replace you?

 

Same one the military used to replace you. 

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Sports Guy said:

Same one the military used to replace you. 

I did a bit more than answer a phone.

[DirtyBird]

Great discussion between the three humans who spend the most company time on a message board.

[Sports Guy]

Just now, Can_of_corn said:

I did a bit more than answer a phone.

Yea, I’m sure you were on the same level as the piss boy.

 

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Sports Guy said:

Yea, I’m sure you were on the same level as the piss boy.

 

I don't even understand that reference.

Is that something that people who didn't serve think folks who did serve do?

[Sports Guy]

2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I don't even understand that reference.

Is that something that people who didn't serve think folks who did serve do?

 

[byrdz]

 

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

 

Even that requires more skill than signing folks up for season tickets.