Posted on 06/02/2014 7:12:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A February report from the Seattle Times revealed:
At the Clarion Hotel off International Boulevard, a sit-down restaurant has been shuttered, though it might soon be replaced by a less-labor-intensive cafe…
Other businesses have adjusted in ways that run the gamut from putting more work in the hands of managers, to instituting a small “living-wage surcharge” for a daily parking space near the airport.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
when did Seattle go to $15 an hour? wasn’t the plan just announced about a month ago? i had not realized it was already happening...
"“I lost my 401k, health insurance, paid holiday, and vacation,” she responded. “No more free food,” she added."
But of course these sort of problems are easily resolved. A stroke of the pen, law of the land, kinda cool. Stay tuned
This is on the American Thinker, which is conservative. This will never be covered in the mainstream American media.
Sounds like they need directive 10-289 to solve this problem.
This is in the Seattle surburban town of Seatac, not the city of Seattle. They raised their minimum wage in Seatac a while ago, so we are seeing the real world impact of it now.
RE: This is on the American Thinker, which is conservative. This will never be covered in the mainstream American media.
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It was reported at the Seattle Times:
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022905775_seatacprop1xml.html
SeaTac did this, Seattle is working on it still.
Who wouldn’t want a $4 cup of coffee with a $10 wage surcharge?
I’ll say it again, don’t dare think that they will admit to failure and repeal the law.
As people lose their jobs, they will file for unemployment, so unemployment taxes on businesses will go up, because how can we turn our backs on those victims of greedy businessmen?
As people who still have jobs gripe about “no more free food” and other benefits, food stamp eligibility will be relaxed and weekly benefits will go up. Which means more taxes, because how can we turn our backs on hungry people?
As people who still have jobs and all their benefits gripe with no self-awareness whatsoever that they are paying “living wage surcharges” at the same kinds of places they work at, “greedy businessmen” will again become Emmanuel Goldstein, and there will be talk of outlawing those surcharges.
And in general, there will simply be more calls for more taxes anyway.
Soon half of the minimum wage people will be seeking public assistance to cover things like healthcare, food etc. The other half will be collecting unemployment. Great strides liberals LOL
They are doing this by city. The city of Sea-Tac has implemented its $15 an hour, the city of Seattle is debating it.
I'd like to see the minimum wage be raised, but not too quickly, so that people who have full time (or nearly so) jobs don't need government handouts.
The limousine liberals of Seattle are happy. The more working people they run out of Seattle, the less of those cars that get in the way of their limos.
“SeaTac did this, Seattle is working on it still.”
Just think, there will be large-scale unemployment, and because of the weather, a lot more of the locals will be “out rusting”.
This is socialism being brought in by design.
AHHHA, so this is an argument for more employer mandates for those things? Every problem has a government fix.
Don't forget paid maternity leave. How could Obamacare miss that one?
The above will be the libs conclusions. Every problem they generate has a government solution.
RE: A really good question that isn’t answered here is “what was the minimum wage raised from?” If the minimum wage were raised to $10 an hour, it would be more realistic and applicable to the discussion of what the minimum wage should be.
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SEE HERE:
On May 1, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced he had brokered a deal to raise the city’s minimum wage for all workers from $9.32 to $15 an hour, the highest in the country.
But they can, and will continue to, ignore it.
“The McDonald’s outlet in downtown Berkeley frequently hosts “members of the homeless community” (I think that’s the preferred nomenclature these days, but I could be behind the times).”
Although he probably doesn’t know it, “hosts” is exactly the right word here. There’s very little commerce involved. The bums buy either nothing or one cup of coffee and linger for hours and hours. And of course they are agitating for the Banana Republic of Berkeley to make that the new legality, and to forbid McDonald’s from being able to force them out of the “public space”.
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