Workers at call centers with federal contract win higher pay
Source: AP
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) Federal contract workers at call centers in nine states, including Mississippi, won pay increases that bring the minimum wage for all of its workers above $15 per hour.
The Communications Workers of America, in a news release Tuesday, said the wage increase comes after Maximus workers rallied for the company to immediately implement President Joe Bidens executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 per hour, which is set to go into effect next year.
Workers havent elected the CWA to represent them, although some of the workers would like to join the union.
The group of Maximus employees are one of the largest federally contracted workforces in the country. They operate 11 call centers in Phoenix, Arizona; Lynn Haven and Riverview, Florida; Lawrence, Kansas; London and Winchester, Kentucky; Bogalusa, Louisiana; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Brownsville, Texas; Sandy, Utah and Chester, Virginia that answer questions about health care under a 10-year, $5.5 billion contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The sites have been the focus of labor organizing and complaints since before Maximus bought them from General Dynamics Corp. in 2018 for $400 million.
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cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)Especially for a physical call center.
The average apartment rent in Riverview is $1620. You are not going to get a lot of $15 an hour workers with those costs.