Originally Posted By: gvbest
Originally Posted By: JTD



My garbage man makes a $100k and recently went on strike because the recyclers ONLY make $80k...

If you fired them all and reopened the job for $50k, you'd have a line a mile long of people willing to perform the same unskilled task and theoretically (of course) my garbage bill would go down.








Looks like I need to be a garbage man in your county seeing as the average in the rest of the state is somewhere around 37K-54K.



Waste Management said its most recent previous offer was a six-year deal that would raise average salaries from $58,000 to $68,000 a year. If benefits are included, that offer was worth $98,000 a year to a driver at the end of the sixth year, the company said.


http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-08-01/trash-piling-up-as-strike-drags-on-in-seattle-area


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