Staff Survey

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.)