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...good employees. No one is going to get rich working for the Coop, but it does pay the minimum wage of $1.60 per hour, with the average employee wage at $1.95 per hour. For a number of years the Coop has sought employees through Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), the largest agency in Boston working in the poverty field. While the Coop already employs proportionately more blacks-about seven per cent-than the other department stores in the area, it is actively seeking even more...
...good employees. No one is going to get rich working for the Coop, but it does pay the minimum wage of $1.60 per hour, with the average employee wage at $1.95 per hour. For a number of years the Coop has sought employees through Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), the largest agency in Boston working in the poverty field. While the Coop already employs proportionately more blacks--about seven per cent--than the other department stores in the area, it is actively seeking even more...
...RESULT of the interest last fall, the COC, and Cornelius May in particular, have tried to explore new means of improving employment at the Coop. "Besides ABCD, we have been working with a number of tenants associations and merchants in Roxbury and Cambridge in an effort to provide additional employment opportunities," May says. "Nothing is established yet, but by the middle of May we hope to have a proposal to implement a large-scale input program. "We've pulled in a number of people from Roxbury in an attempt to set up some sort of self-replenishing feeder organization...
...lives with his parents in the Mary Ellen McCormack housing project, and has worked for the past two years as a housing specialist for Action for Boston Community Development, Inc. (ABCD), a poverty agency in Boston...
Related to hiring practices are the group's grievances over job training, wages, and unions. However, in these areas the Coop's record is remarkably good. For instance, between July 1967 and April 1968, the Coop ran five training programs for 75 disadvantaged youths recruited through ABCD at a cost of twenty thousand dollars. The Coop pays wages competitively with the other retail stores in the area. Contrary to the opposition's claims, no employee earns under the minimum wage of $1.60 per hour, while the average employee wage is $1.95 per hour. In addition, employees get liberal fringe benefits...