You can see the boundary lines more clearly here.
Posted on 11/08/2013 10:01:18 AM PST by lowbridge
It's a good day for low-wage workers in New Jersey and the city of SeaTac, Wash., after residents on Tuesday favored ballot measures that will raise the minimum wage.
The SeaTac initiative will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for hospitality and transportation workers in and near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The current minimum wage in Washington State is $9.19.
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Ah, Seattle. Just another brain dead progressive hellhole bent on self destruction.
Why not make it $100/hr? Then everyone would be rich. (Everyone who still had a job, that is.)
And when Big Macs rise to $10.00 they will riot.
A good day? Many will be unemployed very soon. Most low-wage workers I see at fast food places aren't worth employing at $15 a year. They would need to replace them with more competent employees if it were that high here.
I never et a Pizza Hut delivery that isn't missing something. Once the delivery was 3 hours late.
Happy Meals won’t be so happy at twice the price.
If you are going to break the bonds between wages paid and the value of the employee’s work (or contribution) to the employer, why not go all the way and just set the minimum wage at $100 an hour?
Or $200 an hour?
Or just guarantee everyone $250,000 a year.
/s
This will be a simple calculation of how much to add to the price of each product. But the sales of products will go down as people will buy their burgers and drinks further away. The crowds will adjust and then the restaurants will close. The workers will be unemployed.
Seattle is ludicrous. I was in my hotel listening to the news when a woman was interviewed. She said, “We give the homeless medical treatment, free food and housing. Why,” she lamented, “do we still have a homeless problem?” I stopped what I was doing to listen to the newsreader slap her down, but he merely agreed with her. Give them free stuff and then wonder why they’re there? Amazing.
In that town, a comment/question like that is probably seen as right-wing
Most low-wage workers I see at fast food places aren’t worth employing at $15 a year.
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$15 per hour is about $30,000 a year. That’s a lot of disposable income for someone living with mommy and daddy.
The crowds will adjust and then the restaurants will close. The workers will be unemployed.
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How long before Mickey D and others totally automate the production of burgers? No more need for burger flippers. They can then become Obamacare Navigators.
Or just guarantee everyone $250,000 a year.
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Plus four weeks leave and the month of August off. /sarc
No this is a horrible day for low wage workers in SeaTac. Employers now required to pay $15/hr have nothing to lose by dumping the whole present min wagers and shopping a whole new talent pool.
With $15/hr to spend they can no doubt find better, more reliable, more able talent. They can likely replace ten of the $9/hr dolts, who were probably only getting that much because of the law, with only six $15/hr employees who can get the same amount of work done (or more).
Celebrate morons! Yay! Instead of nine dollars an hour, you now get zero!
Although I’m a single male, I need my maternity leave as well.
“With $15/hr to spend they can no doubt find better, more reliable, more able talent”
If that were the case, the employers would have already been paying $15 per hour ....
Also, voters approved the move to change the city’s name to “New Detroit”.
“How long before Mickey D and others totally automate the production of burgers?”
Corporations are all about managing risk. The recent strike and the race baiter elements involved in it probably resulted in a fairly complete plan which has already been implemented. The technology exists. They’ll build and test a prototype and work the bugs out, then over probably two years they’ll implement a 90% reduction in staffing. Each unit will probably have a fulltime manager who will do most of the work. The restaurant will be 95% automated. It will be cleaner and nobody will spit in your food or be nasty to you at the counter.
Blacks will suffer disproportionality because McDonalds is probably one of the last places you can work with little or no education.
Was this the hunting ground of the Green River Killer?
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