Dr. Williams is apparently not wise to the hustle.
With the requirement to cover employees working over 30 hours a week under Obamacare, they’ve created an incentive to cut the existing workforce to part-time hours.
That of course leaves gaping holes in the schedule, meaning all of these minimum wage employers are on a hiring binge (and the optics of all those Help Wanted signs across the fruited plain certainly help Obama in the short run).
So you get these firms to vastly increase their part-time workforce. Then you cram a Living Wage on them, after which The Secretary Shall decide that the Obamacare requirement actually applies to everyone who works even a single hour on the clock.
At that point the business has two choices: Go Galt or shut up and go with the program. Not all will choose Option 1 unfortunately.
....and, many union wages are tied to the minimum wage. Increase the minimum wage and union wages must increase.
Any time a politico encourages an increase in the minimum wage, he is throwing a bone to his union thugs.