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San Francisco Chamber of Commerce ‘outraged’ over minimum wage measure
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | April 7, 2014 | By Julie Balise

Posted on 04/08/2014 7:55:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is “outraged” over a ballot measure to raise San Francisco’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, saying in a statement on Monday that it “flies in the face of collaboration and partnership.”

The measure would lift base pay about 40 percent from its current $10.74, making San Francisco’s minimum wage the highest in the country. Activists were expected to file papers on Monday for the November ballot.

The measure, designed by SEIU Local 1021, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, and other activist groups, would give companies with fewer than 100 employees until 2017 to raise wages to $15 an hour.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: acorn; california; local1021; minimumwage; sanfrancisco; seiu; unions
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whats wrong with these morons, why not make it $25.00 an hour and be done with it? This way we know the end game has arrived, and stop the bleeding..


21 posted on 04/08/2014 8:20:41 AM PDT by carlo3b (Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.. Henry Kissinger)
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To: Jack Hammer

Well it puts workers in a new tax bracket


22 posted on 04/08/2014 8:21:42 AM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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Intersting that it is spearheaded by the SEIU. I was unaware that any union goons made minimum wage


23 posted on 04/08/2014 8:23:17 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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24 posted on 04/08/2014 8:26:10 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: nascarnation

“In the long run” will govern. Further, the closer the Indiana merchant is to Illinois the higher his prices. It is like “COSTCO when it first started prices were much lower and now with membership fees and supply/demand their prices are just a few pennies cheaper than a supermarket.


25 posted on 04/08/2014 8:26:30 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: dsrtsage

There are union contracts that specify wages as a multiple factor of the min wage. ie Joe SEIU may be paid 2.1 times the min wage. So that factor may be in play here.


26 posted on 04/08/2014 8:26:33 AM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: Sooth2222

The rebirth of the Automat?


27 posted on 04/08/2014 8:42:01 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ha ha. Chamber of Commerce indeed. You libs slept with the crocodile, hoping it would eat you last....or, perhaps, not at all.

You screwed up. You trusted them.

Maybe, just maybe, you ought to embrace truth instead of the constantly shifting standards of those who change their morality on the basis of “what is hip”.


28 posted on 04/08/2014 8:51:08 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

***Activists were expected to file papers on Monday***

Bet they have never started a business or met a payroll in their lives.

Leeches.


29 posted on 04/08/2014 8:55:42 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Or worked an honest job.


30 posted on 04/08/2014 8:57:33 AM PDT by sport
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To: Sooth2222

"Enjoy your *BIG ASS FRIES*"

31 posted on 04/08/2014 9:00:08 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The measure, designed by SEIU Local 1021...

If the measure was "designed" by SEIU, you can bet your bottom dollar (no pun intended) there is a provision to raise all Union pay rates by a like amount, 40%.

32 posted on 04/08/2014 9:14:58 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: William of Barsoom

Being that it is California, I would suspect that if it is by some chance defeated by the voters, it will still be enacted. Just a rerun of Prop 8. Not sure why they even go through the emotions of putting things on the ballot - such a sham!


33 posted on 04/08/2014 9:20:34 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Should make the minimum wage $3000/hour. Then the folks can make some real money. /s


34 posted on 04/08/2014 9:31:06 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are only outraged that they didn’t propose it first...


35 posted on 04/08/2014 9:36:48 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

SEIU a proud member of Obama&CO.


36 posted on 04/08/2014 9:44:27 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Sooth2222

EXACTLY! The only people who lose here are the employees and soon to be former employees. It is sad, because teenagers who just want a job - any job to pay for their gas, buy a used car, save some money for college or take a girl on a date now have fewer options for work. The whole idea of minimum wage is absurd. I thought the minimum wage was an agreed upon amount between the employer and the employee. You know...choice.


37 posted on 04/08/2014 9:50:37 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: dsrtsage
Intersting that it is spearheaded by the SEIU. I was unaware that any union goons made minimum wage

Most union contracts have a clause in them that requires an increase to the union workers' hourly rate each time the minimum wage is increased. SEIU is merely getting SF to vote SEIU a pay raise. Sweet, isn't it?

38 posted on 04/08/2014 9:55:05 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: nascarnation

Same thing in Vermont/New Hampshire. On one side of the Connecticut River there are high taxes, and stringent regulations. On the other side is where all the businesses are. The people of Vermont voted for higher taxes and more regulation. Then they went shopping in New Hampshire.


39 posted on 04/08/2014 10:30:12 AM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: dsrtsage
Intersting that it is spearheaded by the SEIU. I was unaware that any union goons made minimum wage

No, they don't. But the minimum wage is a benchmark and you cannot expect union workers to stand still when the minimum wage rises. They will need an increase too.

40 posted on 04/08/2014 10:33:40 AM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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