The REAL reason for the push on Minimum Wage, is most Union Contracts start their scale at a give amount above minimum wage.
So when Minimum Wage goes up, EVERYONE in the Union get an immediate raise. . .
Re: “So when Minimum Wage goes up, EVERYONE in the Union get an immediate raise.”
I read that again and again here at Free Republic.
Why would any rational business manager agree to a contract like that?
He would have absolutely no control over a political decision that might bankrupt his company.
Also, I had a union job about 25 years ago, in Minneapolis, which was a big union town in that era.
There was nothing in my contract about the minimum wage.