u/CombUnique301

We must join the discord to organize and strike the companies that are being unfair with the rates. Please join: https://discord.gg/bEjgYSqtp

Is no coincidence that most of the companies pay experienced interpreters $4-5/h. They all agreed to those wages, so they can exploit the interpreters and maximize their profit. In a free market there'd be a ton of different wages for every kind of experience, type of interpretation, and heap of other parameters.

For example in medical assistants' job market there's a bunch of different job posts depending on experience (2000-3000 a month), type of service (whether is for a hospital, an office, a clinic) and the workload; you can find 3000-4000/month job offers for experienced MVA managing heavy workloads.

Whereas 3 year-experienced interpreters with B2B and attending Medical, Legal, Community and 911 calls are getting $5-6/h at very jolly best. The higher rates are per minute and if it gets higher than 12 fucking cents, you're getting ONE call every 20 minutes.

Where are all the supposedly competitive capitalist companies that want to lure interpreters with higher wages and better jobs? There's none, because they're united to milk us like fucking starving money cows, while they charge 30 dollars an hour for OUR service.

I'm going to send my CV to every BPO I can find and try to get in touch with the most people I can to invite them to the strike, because most of interpreters doesn't have a reddit and have no idea about this.

I'm so glad to see so many people striking against the interpreting companies. Don't lose momentum! Destroy them until you get a living wage! In just one day of protests, they'll lose millions. Never give up!

Is someone working for Language Group able to provide some insights? I just got hired and the call flow is terrible—a 5-minute call every 10–20 minutes. Will it get better over time, or is it going to be like this all the time? Is it because of my minute rate ($0.20/min)? I've been noticing that every post talking about rates higher than $0.12/min complains about the call volume. Is there a company that pays a rate higher than $0.12 that has B2B calls?