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Author Topic: Pay rates for hourly concession, ticket, usher staff Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-02-2007 05:56 AM                     Since a union contract can be written in just about any way, I'm sure such a contract either exists or has existed though I've never personally seen one. All of the contracts I've been a part of (for projection) have had rigid pay schedules that specified the amount paid to the worker in any theatre under contract and also specified any increases that would automatically take affect. The rate of pay has always been on a separate page or schedule that is attached to the contract "and made part thereto" or some such verbage.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-02-2007 06:25 AM                     Thanks Steve. Whoever I heard this from (I can't remember who, just that I did and at the time it seemed credible) made it seem like this was a widespread practice. Apparantly not.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-02-2007 11:25 AM                        Anything can be negotiated into or out of a labor contract as long as both parties agree to it. So I wouldn't be surprised if language tying contract wage rates to the federal or state minimum wage has been used in an agreement. Personally I've never seen that in any of the IATSE agreements I've worked under over the years. I have seen contract language tying wages to the cost-of-living index though, which provides for wages to automatically rise with that index each year for the duration of the contract. That method was used by PATCO when I was in that group and seems to be a favorite with many of the other current federal employee unions.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-02-2007 12:51 PM                        quote: Joel N. Weber II Many/most of the goods sold in the US aren't manufactured in the US, so the US minimum wage shouldn't affect the manufacturing cost of those goods. There is a lot more to the cost of making an item than just the actual manufacturing, even if it's made overseas.  |  IP: Logged Jon Paul Johns Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Oklahoma city,Oklahoma/United States Registered: Nov 2005 posted 11-03-2007 09:18 AM                     Good point Mike.  |  IP: Logged

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