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Hospital Uses Executive Bonus Money to Give its Workers A Raise

posted by martyb on Tuesday June 17 2014, @08:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the take-it-from-the-top dept.

gewg_ writes:

Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas[1] will raise its own minimum wage to $10.25 an hour next month...
The wage increase will cost the hospital about $350,000 a year. The expense will be covered with money from the upcoming quarter's bonus pool for the hospital's 60 vice presidents and top executives.

After this, every worker employed by Dallas County will make at least $10.25 an hour (still not a living wage by many measures).
Note also that this will barely put a dent in that pool, expected to be at least $3M for the year.

[1] People who have memories of November 22, 1963 will remember that as a historic location

 
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  • (Score: 1) by strattitarius on Tuesday June 17 2014, @02:59PM

    by strattitarius (3191) on Tuesday June 17 2014, @02:59PM (#56430) Journal
    First, I am somewhat uneasy about your attitude that our entire goal should be to provide the most basic livable wage... So where does entertainment come in? What if something unexpected happens? Where is the savings account line item? Allowing people to scrape by is the same as allowing them to be an indentured servant.

    Have you ever played a tower defense game and know you need to save up for *SUPERSPECIALUPGRADE* but can't because you are spending every dime trying to prevent those damn trolls from breaking through? That's what it's like to make about $10/hr, when you are single with no kids. When you have kids it's like putting the TD game on super hard and getting your ass handed to you.

    Second, the cost of living doesn't change that much from normal place to normal place. That does not include the bay area, NYC, some of Chicago and some of Seattle (and probably a few others). If you are trying to compare cost of living just throw those out the window... it skews the data. What's the difference from Dallas to Cleveland? Probably not that much. Cleveland to Georgia? And finally Georgia to Dallas? It's not much different.

    So what do I want... I want a realization that we have setup a society where the well-off can move about freely, without the need for armed security guards because we have police paid for by taxes, and we have ensured that people do not become unable to meet their needs and some desires and turn to taking possessions from the well-off crowd.
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  • (Score: 2) by RaffArundel on Tuesday June 17 2014, @09:33PM

    by RaffArundel (3108) on Tuesday June 17 2014, @09:33PM (#56658) Homepage

    First, I am somewhat uneasy about your attitude that our entire goal should be to provide the most basic livable wage...

    It looks like you are responding to me, but you may be reading your own prejudices into this discussion. At no point in time did I advocate "allowing the plebes to just scrape by" suggested by this reply. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "our entire goal" but I would probably surprise you if I actually voiced my opinions on such things concerning the growing divide between earners and the detrimental effect it most certainly has on society. I also have rather centrist views on the the role of government providing social security (note the lowercase) to the citizens and residents of this country.

    Second, the cost of living doesn't change that much from normal place to normal place. That does not include the bay area, NYC, some of Chicago and some of Seattle (and probably a few others). If you are trying to compare cost of living just throw those out the window... it skews the data. What's the difference from Dallas to Cleveland? Probably not that much. Cleveland to Georgia? And finally Georgia to Dallas? It's not much different.

    I said no such thing. The post suggested this wasn't a livable wage based on prices in San Francisco and Seattle, here is the direct quote: "After this, every worker employed by Dallas County will make at least $10.25 an hour (still not a living wage by many measures)."

    That link is an article by Ralph Nader praising the minimum wage hikes in some of the most expensive places to live - to about this level. So, if you want to argue that $10 an hour isn't livable in Dallas (or Cleveland) fine, take it up with him, but it does stretch a lot further in the places you mention than the places where the link suggests it is wonderful. TFS reeks of click-bait and I was hoping we left that behind at the other site.