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Posted on 04/30/2015 4:09:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
San Francisco is getting ready to raise its minimum wage to $12.25 an hour, a rate that will have the city joining Oakland as the locales with the nation's highest legally mandated pay for non-salaried workers.
San Francisco's new minimum is set to go into effect on Friday. It was approved by voters as part of an initiative that will increase the minimum wage to $15 in 2018.
The National Employment Law Project estimates that 142,000 workers will receive the higher wages.
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Back in the 60s when Cesar Chavez was “organizing” California’s farm workers, he pushed for things like available Porta Poties as well as higher wages. By God the Tomato pickers would finally have a living wage. But labor costs became so high that some clever engineers developed a tomato-picking machine. Now they had to develop a type of tomato that could survive being picked by said machine, but UC Davis was able to pull it off. The new tomatoes didn’t taste as good as the older hand-picked variety, but you have to pay a price for progress.
The new wage for tomato pickers dropped to $0 whether they joined the United Farm Workers or not.
Seattle is $15.00/hr although it is being phased in over a period of 3 to 7 years dependent on how many people a company employs.
We love it up there the bay the costal range and such but can’t stand the pricing and 75 to 80 percent of the natives !!! This will make me think about visiting again it is too expensive
They usually have to put in a lot of hours for that 45K.
In a closed system what you say is true, but the USA is being flooded with a tide of human traffic.
but it’s still 45k. And then that person’s kids go to college and get a better job. that’s how it worked for most ethics including my family.
I don’t know. 20 years ago minimum wage was 3.35 and even then it was said that jobs would be over forever if we raised it to 3.75. Well 20 years later jobs are still here and the World continues to go along. Cities and States should do what they want. Federal is a different story.
I doubt it. That is pretty hyperbole.
San Franfrico will be sucessfull in implementing the higher wage. It will just be passed along to the citizens whom can afford it with their Silicon Valley incomes. The middle class has been knowingly and deliberately priced out of the city by the Leftiste elite. There has been plenty of protests in the past that don’t get much airtime in regards to the middle class getting priced out of housing to make room for the Silicon Valley crowd.
The illegals that Obama gives legal work status will most likely not be employed if the employers have to pay high minimum wages, and taxpayers will be stuck paying for their welfare. But the Chamber of Commerce guys will still want cheap labor, so even more illegals will flood over here to work under the counter as they do now.
You are right. And I have read that quite a few people started out flipping burgers at McDonalds, worked their way up to management, saved some money and became franchise owners themselves.
I heard a business woman on the radio this morning, I think she was from Portland, crying the blues because she’s going to have to go out of business and her employees won’t be able to find jobs. And one of her employees was crying the blues because he got laid off with no notice. And it’s all because of the high minimum wage. I’d bet they both supported it.
The missing jobs are the ones you don’t see.
“The only problem is once the policy is instituted, the unemployed fleeing the disaster just infect everywhere else they go. “
That’s why I hate it when one always touts the success of a red state like Texas. The more you promote it as a success, the stupid idiot liberals will move there bringing their brand liberal disease with them, infecting it in the future.
The wage space between zero and minimum can be filled legally by outsourcing work to a foreign country. There is value to be purchased there, but it is not allowed on U.S. soil. The priced out illiterates find ways to scam the taxpayer and the leftist political persuasion is happy to service that demand in exchange for votes using the taxpayer's money against them.
“Seattle is $15.00/hr”
And a couple high tech co. moves from being nothing but a cold wet tourist city scraping by paying the bills.
We lived in Stockton back in the '60s, when it looked like a small Iowa town plunked down in the middle of the boonies (veggies REALLY cheap, though). Chavez would wait until the crop was ripe, then go out on strike. The one that blew my mind was when they refused to pick asparagus. The farmers welded blades to the front of their tractors and harvested the crop that way, losing a lot because the young shoots were cut as well.
In SIX WEEKS, the geniuses at UC Davis came up with a rig that had feelers on it - if the 'gus wasn't high enough to trip it, it didn't get cut. I marveled that they could come up with something so quick.
We had almond trees in the back yard and would spend an hour or so knocking the ripe nuts off the limbs with long bamboo poles, same as the farm workers. Next thing we knew, UCD came up with a vibrating rig to hook on the front of the tractor. It had two big padded "claws" like a lobster, grabbed the tree and shook Hell out of it, cutting production time - and labor - down to minutes.
Now they've come out with a machine to pick ripe strawberries without bruising them. Gonna be a lot more unemployed farm workers pretty soon.
You make no sense. Stop with your stupid intruding.
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