{"id":8290,"date":"2024-06-11T08:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=8290"},"modified":"2024-06-11T08:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:04:47","slug":"paid-lunch-on-the-menu-heres-what-it-would-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/paid-lunch-on-the-menu-heres-what-it-would-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid Lunch On The Menu. Here’s What It Would Cost…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Can GM afford to provide a lunch break to members working six days a week? Would the company go bankrkupt?\u00a0 We will run the numbers in this article and let you decide.\u00a0 There questions came to mind after reading a Yahoo story about the tragic desappearance of the American lunch hour<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Lunch breaks \u2013 which have existed since the industrial revolution \u2013 have always been about more than just food. Lunch has also long been a source of tension between management and workers. By the late 19th century, factory owners began allotting a specific amount of time to break for lunch, one that would maximize worker output and make bosses the most money.<\/p>\n

\u201cA factory owner wanted to make sure they got the most out of their workers, so they started controlling when they could eat lunch,\u201d said Megan Elias, an associate professor at Boston University and author of Lunch: the History of a Meal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was once a standard schecdule for breaks that equaled to about an hour during an eight hour shift.\u00a0 It looked like this: 1st break – 15 minutes, Lunch – 30 minutes, 2nd break – 15 minutes.\u00a0 Considering the extreme schedule of six day weeks we are working at Wentzville Assembly would it bankrupt the company to provide an hour of paid breaks every shift?\u00a0 Currently, there are two breaks: a 16 minute breakand a 24 minute break with no break at midday for lunch.\u00a0 How much would it cost in employee compensation to incorporate a 20 minute paid lunch period?\u00a0 Let’s run the numbers.<\/p>\n

A 20 minute break represent 1\/3 of a 60 minute hour.\u00a0 Let’s express this as .3333.<\/p>\n

We will assume everyone is making around $37.00 an hour, which is near top production pay.\u00a0 Of course skilled trades earn more and lower seniority and temporary workers earn less so $37.00 should get us in the neighborood of average cost.\u00a0 So a 20 minute paid break would cost $37.00 x .3333 = $12.33.<\/p>\n

So if it would cost $12.33 to pay for a 20 minute lunch and there are 3500 workers actually working throughout the work day it would cost 3500 x $12.33 = $43,155 per day.<\/p>\n

So, the entire plant receiving a paid lunch break of 20 minutes would cost GM $43,155.<\/p>\n

To look at it another way, I looked up the retail price of the vehicles we make.\u00a0 They range from $37,595 to $69,995.\u00a0 So for less than the price of one vehicle, all workers could have a paid lunch.<\/p>\n

Well, there is the math.\u00a0 What do you think?\u00a0 While on an extreme 6 day schedule should workers receive a paid lunch?\u00a0 On any schedlule, should a paid lunch be on the menu?<\/p>\n

\"Lunch<\/p>\n

( graphic via freepik.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can GM afford to provide a lunch break to members working six days a week? Would the company go bankrkupt?\u00a0 We will run the numbers in this article and let you decide.\u00a0 There questions came to mind after reading a Yahoo story about the tragic desappearance of the American lunch hour… Lunch breaks \u2013 which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8293,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions\/8293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}