NYC Transit Strike
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- adamfinger0
I'm not sure, but so what if they start out making 55k? I started out making considerably less and my job isn't coupled with the responsibility of SAFELY transporting passengers. Even if driving a bus is easy, so what?
What designers don't realize, and what most younger people seem to be ignorant of is that the middle-class's income has remained stagnant for the last 20+ years.
Those in non-union jobs, particularly those that require college educations and are deemed "professions," are resentful of those paid more for seemingly simple or easy tasks as if those other workers (in this case, transit workers) are somehow stealing money that they haven't earned. Designers are generally UNDERPAID and OVERWORKED.
We work hours that our great grandparents did, but because we don't work in factories, we think its okay. We should be working, at most, 8 hour days, having long vacations, and being sufficiently paid.
Unions have fought hard for their earnings. Transit workers, unlike car manufacturers and designers, can't have their jobs outsourced. For us to see comparable (or better) benefits, we have to fight for them....which means actually aligning ourselves with other designers and other workers instead of competing against them.
I realize such concepts are foreign to designers.