I love my team, my customers, my job. I don’t want to leave if it’s not absolutely necessary.
I’ve been talking to some coworkers about their pay and hours. It’s insane. I make more than a manager, one of my best cashiers makes $3 less than everyone else (and management is trying to pull them to a different department who makes even more than me, without giving them a raise), and one of our new hires was so bad and unreliable they… gave them a 10% raise and they have to be supervised all day? Meanwhile employees who’ve been here nearly a decade got a whole nickel raise.
Is it reasonable to organize a strike? I want to talk with my team and come to a consensus of what we all believe should be the minimum we’re paid and minimum hours we should be scheduled for. So many of us went from 40 hours to 10, myself included. They say they don’t have the hours to give but interview 3 people a day and hire at least 2 a week. It’s to the point other departments genuinely do have more people than they have time for, meanwhile my department is so short staffed we sometimes only have 1 person while others have 5-10.
My department makes $1-$3 less than every other department yet is getting shafted the hardest. I’m not exaggerating, the other departments have asked us what the hell is going on. I know I could get support from the other departments as well, but my team is the priority here. Without my team the store wouldn’t run at all.
While it’d be nice we’re not asking for $40/hour 40 hours a week. We just want as much as the other departments, we want at least 24 hours a week, and we want transparency with hours and what’s actually happening in the store. The manager running our store has been the one running every other store in the area when it finally went out of business. Makes sense, the first thing this person asked me to do was commit fraud on behalf of the company…
I don’t want to leave if it’s not necessary. If we strike and they cave, we don’t have to leave. Is it reasonable? Or should I just dust myself off and find a different job..?
They can’t fire all of us. They wouldn’t have a store to run.