Posted on 06/02/2014 5:18:57 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Monday to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, equaling the highest minimum wage in the nation.
The law will phase in the higher wages over a three- to seven-year window, depending on the size of a company. Corporations that employ more than 500 workers will have to pay $15 an hour by 2017 if their employees don’t receive company-paid health care. Smaller businesses can wait until 2019 to reach the higher rate. All workers will receive the highest wage by 2021.
“The people who work for a living have basically seen no increase in their incomes since the 1970s,” Mayor Ed Murray said in an interview. “With the federal government fairly stuck, and as we see states more and more adopting that same dysfunction, cities are the place to lead right now.”
Murray spent his first four months in office hammering out an agreement to raise the wage through a task force that included labor, business and nonprofit representatives. Labor groups had threatened to put a wage hike on the ballot this year if the city didn’t increase the wage on its own.
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I used to make $2.50 per hour when I was 22 and you could buy a huge seafood platter that no one person should ever eat at one sitting for $2.25. In those days if you had a hundred dollar bill you could go on a vacation without a credit card. Most young people don’t believe those days ever really existed but back then the old folks could not believe how expensive everything had gotten. I actually recall seeing a man in his early forties pitch a fit back around 1956 because someone had the nerve to charge him a whole TEN CENTS for a cup of coffee in an eating place. He had never paid more than a nickel in his life. Even in ‘65 when I went to boot camp the saying to indicate that something was worthless was, “That and a NICKEL will get you a cup of coffee.” I still recall my father turning red and sputtering because the electric bill for a month hit EIGHT dollars.
You must an old coot like me!
“You must an old coot like me!”
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I remember things that happened before things started happening.
What's happening, Good Lookin'!!
I don't think I've seen you around here before.
Do I come here often?
You are kids-—I made 90 cents an hour in 1952,and that was after I asked for a raise.
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“Do I come here often?”
Yes, I do...but why?
Who said that?
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