By eliminating the “Jahressonderzahlung”, colloquially known as “Weihnachtsgeld”, which effectively was a 13th monthly wage at the end of the year, my workplace effectively upended the minimum wage increase from 2022 and the subsequent pay raise for my pay grade, which is barely more than minimum wage anyway. God, I hate being poor. Time to organise some people.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    Do you mean pay cut in the title?

    Something similar happened to my friend, he was excited about a pay raise at the end of the year but I showed him it actually was effectively a cut as it was below the yearly inflation. Pretty bad times.

    • reaper_cushions [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 days ago

      It was still a nominal raise, but it was basically negligible in nominal terms and not even remotely sufficient to counteract inflation over the same period.

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    My last couple years' raises were 3%, 3%, 2%, 0%. Every time they make sure to include a bit saying "This is a merit-based increase, it is not a cost of living increase". Okay, so where's the COLA raise you fucks?

    • reaper_cushions [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, I am paid according to a collective agreement. And in the position I’m in, I don’t exactly have much bargaining power unless I can organise a substantial number of people.

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    :-) I got a raise from $19/hr to $20.75/hr in March 2022, which is close to 10% (it's actually like 9.61% but whatever - they didn't wanna give me an extra $0.15/hour or just even it out to $21/hr and yet the bastards wonder why I refuse to participate in the weekly virtual coffee hour)

    i think inflation outpaced that increase by June 2022. I still haven't seen any real tangible benefit to the extra $1.75/hr. That additional ~$300/month just barely covers the higher cost of groceries I suppose.... (or at least that's what I tell myself when it's near the end of the month, my landlord is sending me rent requests, and I'm wondering how I spent like $1400 after tax in between the 15th and the 1st obama-spike)