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> That's not how it works in the real world. You get paid by market rate; which means if there is someone else accepting a pay cut, you'll get fired and replace
by csb6 7y ago
> That's not how it works in the real world. You get paid by market rate; which means if there is someone else accepting a pay cut, you'll get fired and replaced.
I agree, that's true. It's almost as if this is an unjust system that devolves into a race to the bottom and inevitable exploitation of workers. And that in the real world, anyone who tries to fight against this system ends up screwed by their employers.
I'm glad we could agree on the exploitation inherent to the labor market.
- allovernow 7y agoThe vast majority of people in the "labor market" are making livable wages. This is not the "unjust system" that a minority at the bottom are complaining about. In any case this "exploitation" is temporary for these student teachers and most importantly as others have pointed out, most of these students are foreign workers and personally I think it's a little exploitive for them to demand entitlements while harming the school to get their way - if it really is so bad no one is forcing them to study here.
- anigbrowl 7y ago[Unprintable]
- dantheman 7y agoHow is it exploitation? These people are students who are compensated while learning -- they're not full time staff. They get a degree at the end.
- saagarjha 7y agoMany of these students are paid part-time to do essentially full-time jobs, and often find it difficult or even impossible take up outside employment.
- refurb 7y agoThese graduate students are TAing labs. It's nowhere near a full time job.
- saagarjha 7y agoYou often end up doing 30-40 hours of work, but are only paid for 20.
- refurb 7y agoI guess experiences vary. It was definitely a part time job when I did it.
- kortilla 7y agoPerhaps due to incompetence. Better to take longer and get it done rather than get fired I suppose. When I was a TA 20 hours of work was the most it took (and it was frequently less).
- saagarjha 7y agoIt's good to see that your graduate school experience worked for you, but I would suggest you talk to the TAs striking before labelling them as lazy and unfit.
- kortilla 7y ago> I'm glad we could agree on the exploitation inherent to the labor market. When you hire a plumber to do some work on your plumbing, do you do any price comparisons? If so, do you feel that’s “exploitation”?
- ChrisLomont 7y ago>this is an unjust system that devolves into a race to the bottom and inevitable exploitation of workers Yet this system has increased the real pay of labor many, many fold over the past 100 years, to where even poverty level in the US is above a good portion of the world income, even though those other people also labor quite hard. It's an odd race to the bottom that has raised wages so significantly for all quintiles.