Posted on 06/19/2018 7:40:53 PM PDT by caww
D.C. voters backed Initiative 77 Tuesday, raising the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, up from the current level of $12.50, and phasing out the $3.33 an hour minimum wage for tipped workers. With just under 90 percent of the precincts reporting in at press time, the margin was 55-44 percent.
The effort had been 'championed by organized labor and liberal groups'... but opposed by the restaurant industry as well as city government leaders.
D.C. previously allowed tipped workers to be paid $3.33 an hour but required employers to make up the difference if that plus tips did not equal the city's minimum wage of $12.50 an hour.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
related to the minimum wage hike in liberal strongholds:
Let’s say a waitress/waiter handles 10 tables per hour. Each table leaves $5. That’s $50 per hour. During an 8 hour shift, that’s a nice tidy $400 of non taxable dollars. Come on, as if they don’t lie to the IRS. Of course, there are variables like slow times but the generous tippers will make up for those who don’t.
> I’m surprised that in past the USG hasn’t just nationalized all of D.C. <
The District of Columbia is way too big. There should be a small Federal District, composed of federal government property only. Everything else should be ceded to Maryland.
Apartment buildings, private residences, stores, etc. shouldn’t be in a federal district.
since most of the service unions, esp. the SEIU, are Marxist led, their slogan is now “Workers of the US unite; you have nothing to lose but your tips”.
DC: The District of Corruption; The District of Communism; The District of Criminals.
Pick one and with that you get an egg roll.
Good bye DC restaurant business.
They really want more unemployment and business closures, don’t they?
Has anyone established if any civil authority, most specifically a congressionally created district of authority where laws lay within the power of congress, that they can actually interfere with a private contract such as the setting of wages?
Can even a president, who has the authority to set the prices of products, set the private contract of wages?
>> phasing out the $3.33 an hour minimum wage for tipped workers.
Which translates to no more tips for the wait staff.
Yes, the leftist labor unions just hate tips, or anything that resembles merit pay.
Ignorant DC voters, just like ignorant Cali or NY voters, choose to foul their own nest.
When things get icky beyond icky, they will be unable to connect the very few dots between Dem politics and their squalid, welfare rat lives.
Most local restaurants that I’ve seen have signs in their windows asking to vote no on the proposition. Waitstaff were not asking for this; some busybody third party purported to be looking out for their interests.
Workers are already receiving a minimum of $12.50 an hour. If a tipped employee doesn’t make at least $12.50, the employer makes up the difference.
I tip in Vietnam, but am about the only person who I know who tips.
Don’t tip a lot. But just a bit. Always.
I think you’re right. It is an American idea, I think.
There’s other diners to consider, selfish.
Do union wages in DC go up automatically, if there is a minimum wage increase?
An utter cesspool of liberalism/progressivism.....
The whole freakin’ metro area outside of the gated communities is a 3rd world cesspool, Arlington included. And best viewed through your rear-view mirror.
The bulk of my idea is that all the private land in D.C. should be revitalized into a clean federal park. It has a land area of only 61 square miles. Maryland has 12,407 square miles.
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