Posted on 01/16/2019 1:08:18 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
If you do a construction project for the City of Minneapolis, or any state funded project in the county, you will pay a minimum wage for a laborer of $53.75 per hour. I could go on and on about what a nightmare that was when I did it for years but don’t need the stroke right now.
http://workplace.doli.state.mn.us/prevwage/commercial_data.php?county=27
MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY PREVAILING WAGES FOR STATE FUNDED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
notice THIS NOTICE MUST BE POSTED ON THE JOBSITE IN A CONSPICUOUS PLACE
Construction Type: Commercial
County Number: 27
County Name: HENNEPIN
Effective: 2018-12-17
This project is covered by Minnesota prevailing wage statutes. Wage rates listed below are the minimum hourly rates to be paid on this project.
All hours worked in excess of eight (8) hours per day or forty (40) hours per week shall be paid at a rate of one and one half (1 1/2) times the basic hourly rate.
Violations should be reported to:
Department of Labor and Industry
Prevailing Wage Section
443 Lafayette Road N
St Paul, MN 55155
(651) 284-5091
DLI.PrevWage@state.mn.us
* Indicates that adjacent county rates were used for the labor class listed.
County: HENNEPIN (27)
LABOR CODE AND CLASS EFFECT DATE BASIC RATE FRINGE RATE TOTAL RATE
LABORERS (101 - 112) (SPECIAL CRAFTS 701 - 730)
101 LABORER, COMMON (GENERAL LABOR WORK) 2018-12-17 34.11 19.64 53.75
These are supposed to be “law makers”? They don’t even understand basic economics. Ok, raise the burger flipper to $15.00/hr. That’s double. Then the floor supervisor would have to be doubled too. Say, $20.00/hr. The manager will go to $24.00/hr. How bout the maintenance man? $30.00? So much for that happy meal kids. Sorry, but daddy can’t afford it. Here’s the box with left over smell inside. Enjoy.
Lets bump inflation to 15%.The rule of 72 will have the debt but a fraction of what it is today. Let’s make the minimum wage $50 an hour! It’ll be awesome! :)
“The Dems $15 per hour wage destroying lives everywhere”
Except for the unions who get raises also because of this.
Until illegal immigration is quelled I am in favor of a minimum wage. States rights issue for me.
How many of them paid their staff $15/hour in the last campaign?
If it’s “the right thing to do” you shouldn’t need the government to force you to do it.
Make it $1,000 an Hour you cheap Commies.
Doing a Cost / Benefit Analysis is as foreign to those Commies as is the word “Illegal”.
Labor is not the only cost in food service. It’s actually not even the biggest cost.
Yes, because ALL THE OTHER MINIMUM WAGE RAISES THEY DID IN THE PAST WORKED SO WELL.................
Commies like to set wages and so does the Cheap Labor Express by flooding the labor market with bodies, both legal and illegal. So there is a lot of Communism going around.
$15 minimum wage inflating all other wages. 70% tax rate. Can any business continue?
HEY!!!
Did they bother to ask WE THE PEOPLE if we wanted to raise the FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE to $15?
It’s like my daddy used to say about to guys about to fight-“one guys scares and he other guy is glad.” The Dems know this won’t oass and they are happy it won’t. They know it’s a disaster. This way they get the issue to fight on without the damage.
This is really idiotic because the cost of living is radically different across the country. If for some reason Congress feels that states do not have sufficient minimums then they should pass a wage that varies by location. The calculations are already done for federal travel, agency wages, etc. $15 an hour is decent money in Alabama but doesn’t buy squat in California.
Why not $100?
The Democrat’s BIG constitutional problem with federal minimum wage hike is that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds the specific power to establish national minimum wage.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
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