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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DELACROIX" data-source="post: 3359119" data-attributes="member: 49065"><p>Hired in part time over 40 years ago, starting pay rate of 5.50 per hour, at that time it was twice the state minimum pay rate of 2 dollars.   You should be asking why you are not getting 20 dollars per hour starting rate today.  It is not a full time/part time issue.  A standard of dollar, dollar and dollar on a three year contract in the eighties was common, that was when a dollar bought more.  The split raises over the last two contracts was a concession equal to the “82” two tier bonus contract. Once you get bad language in a contract it tends to stay.  Minimum rate by 2020 will be around 15 dollars per hour anyway.  The starting part time rate will go up one way or another.</p></blockquote><p></p>