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De Blasio urges business to raise wage minimum to $13 an hour
Newsday ^
| 03/05/2015
| MATTHEW CHAYES
Posted on 03/05/2015 3:26:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Mayor Bill de Blasio Thursday urged the city's private businesses to pay their workers at least $13 an hour -- almost 50 percent more than the state minimum wage.
Speaking at a business leaders' breakfast at a luxury hotel overlooking Central Park, de Blasio said employers shouldn't wait for governments to raise the minimum wage.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
And people from NYC think they are so smart ...
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:29:22 PM PST
by
Fungi
(Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
and cut DeBlasio’s salary by 50%. Please run this by him : )
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:35:17 PM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:40:23 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: E. Pluribus Unum; a fool in paradise
$150 an hour!
With a 3-hour work week!
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:41:58 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: GeronL
$150 an hour!
With a 3-hour work week!
And 6 months of vacation.
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:44:18 PM PST
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: GraceG
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:44:47 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: GraceG
And 6 months of PAID vacation.
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:46:37 PM PST
by
Dartman
(Canadian, eh. And proud of it.)
To: Dartman
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:47:44 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:48:05 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Let’s drive out all the riff raff and send them to Binghamton.
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:55:05 PM PST
by
Shady
(We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Let's say you own a small pizza joint in NY with 10 employees currently making $10 per hour.
gross wages 208k
FICA $15,912
FUTA$1,050
SUTA$$4,226.25
WCINS$3,161.60
Total EE cost $232,349.85
now $13/hr
Gross Wages $270,400
FICA $20,685.60
FUTA$1,050
SUTA$$4,226.25
WCINS$$4,110.08
Total EE cost $300,471.93
Increase cost to business $68,122.08 Going to have to sell a hell of a lot of pizza to make that up! But we all know the cost per slice is going up!
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posted on
03/05/2015 3:58:21 PM PST
by
eyrish69
(Yellowstone Wolves - Smoke a Pack a Day!!!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I love idiots who would have failed a basic economics class telling everyone else what to do.
But what do you expect from a man who hides from his real name and increased NYC’s murder rate by 20%
Hey, Wilhelm, guess where I won’t be spending the precious little disposable income that I have.
Jerk!!
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posted on
03/05/2015 4:23:58 PM PST
by
KosmicKitty
(Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Lets see, sticking with the food business, lets raise the labor costs of fast food restaurants up to the same level as regular restaurants. Thus who would eat at McDonalds if it costs the same as Applebees for example. McDonalds then goes the way of Blockbuster and then everybody in that segment losses their jobs.
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posted on
03/05/2015 4:58:46 PM PST
by
gusty
To: KosmicKitty
Debasio explained the people should be able to at least afford a pack of cigarettes, which cost that much because we raised the taxes up the ying yang on them.
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posted on
03/05/2015 4:58:54 PM PST
by
spawn44
(MOO)
To: spawn44
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Heartless bastard. Why not $26 per hour?
To: gusty
Win-win as far as the big-government/big-union/big-corporate crony-fascist complex is concerned.
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posted on
03/05/2015 5:02:15 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
How correct you are. My dad once had a union delegate admit the same to him. My dad asked him that if he got what he wanted the little contractors would be driven out of business. The union guy replied, your right, we do not want to negotiate with hundreds of different outfits, we just want to negotiate with two or three only.
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posted on
03/05/2015 5:05:49 PM PST
by
gusty
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