Staff Survey

This survey was done in 2008

Stuff we mostly agreed upon (12 - 15 people agreed)

• One definition of a living wage is twice the amount of the current legal minimum wage. (In 2009 minimum wage in Oregon will be $8.40, twice that is $16.80, and we currently make $11.55.) Should that definition of a living wage be used as one (long term) goal for staff compensation? YES
• Should all collective workers get paid the same hourly rate (or the same salary, assuming same hours)? YES - SALARIED
• Should all collective workers get paid the same hourly rate (or the same salary, assuming same hours)? YES
• Should workers get paid for attending meetings? YES
• Should all collective workers be required to work a certain minimum number of hours per week? YES
• Should there be a cap on how many hours per week collective members should be paid for? YES
• Should we strive to give workers a flexible schedule, for example allowing them to work fewer days and more hours per day or allowing them to take a half day off per week, making the time up elsewhere in the week? YES
• Should we strive to hire and allocate work so that no one needs to work more hours on average than they are paid for? YES
• Should all collective workers be required to spend a minimum amount of time working with volunteers? How much? YES
• Should all collective workers be required to perform tasks that nobody wants (or not enough people want) to do? YES
• Should all collective workers be required to have a job description? YES
• Should all collective workers be required to participate in a minimum number of committees? YES
• Should all collective workers be required to set goals? YES
• Should all collective workers be required to report all the hours that they work? YES

(See Staff Survey on the securewiki for stuff we have less agreement on.)

Questions for Future Surveys

Things we think are important, but were not on the first survey