Posted on 02/26/2022 3:58:20 PM PST by lowbridge
The fight for $18? It’s on, say supporters of raising the minimum wage in California.
California’s minimum wage rose in January to $15 an hour for employers with 26 or more employees, and $14 an hour for employers with 25 or fewer. Under a ballot initiative currently being circulated for signatures, the minimum wage would continue increasing by a dollar each year until it hit $18 an hour.
Under the proposed initiative, the California governor would have the authority to suspend the annual increase up to two times, such as during periods of decreased economic activity or during a general fund deficit.
On Feb. 8, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber cleared the way for supporters of the initiative to begin circulating petitions to get it on the November ballot. Proponents have until Aug. 8 to submit signatures from at least 623,212 registered voters in order to qualify the initiative.
“We will get on the November 2022 ballot,” said entrepreneur Joe Sanberg, who is the proponent of record for the initiative.
Ken Jacobs, chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center, said that while $15 was a significant increase in the state’s minimum wage, it still falls below what a typical Californian needs to earn in order to meet basic needs in the state.
“$18 an hour would bring the minimum wage closer to a living wage,” Jacobs said.
He said that increasing the minimum wage would not just benefit millions of low-wage working Californians, it would have “pretty big downstream effects” for the state as well, including improved physical and mental health, decreased absenteeism at work and improved children’s outcomes.
Jacobs said the that the impact on businesses would be relatively small.
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Let’s make it $25. Nice round number.
Make it $100K per year - then everyone can be above average.
Make it a million, then they can all be millionaires!!!
Yeah!!!
We might be better served by building a wall around California, Oregon, and Washington.
Just tell applicants to set their own pay.
Why I don’t employ anyone here anymore.
This is one of those things that I can’t believe we are still debating, much like the cause of inflation. The libs want to raise the minimum wage to $15/hr, so you ask “why not (insert higher amount). They accuse you of reductio ad absurdum or slippery slope, then they want to raise it again. They NEVER really answer the original question. What was absurd 30 years ago is now mainstream.
“Why I don’t employ anyone here anymore.”
I’m self-employed, and I haven’t raised my rates in years. Frankly, I should. I also haven’t had an employee in a very long time. No thanks.
Ditto. Downsized to family only.
How everyone just make just $300k a year? Everyone will be rich! Poverty eliminated! (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞
Well, at least now I won’t have to hire those unreliable teenagers for no skill jobs anymore
How about 250 trillion per minute
A lot of people feel sorry for the people earning low wages, and $15 is the new low wage after the current inflation took hold.
But, those who feel sorry for others and want to raise their wages, are not thinking things through, where those higher wages translate to higher prices of just about everything, and the new $15 or $20 dollar wage becomes the new poor wages.
Nothing comes without consequences. But, democrats will continue pointing out how wages have gone up during the inflation period we’re in, but, those higher wages occurred because far too many companies/businesses were forced into the higher wages because of competition for workers because of the labor shortage.
There is still a labor/worker shortage, and the higher wages are not reaching the unemployed or those who refuse to go back to work.
With democrats, the solution is to pay everybody a living wage, whatever that is, but, the higher wages increases the cost of living, where the new living wages become the wages of the poor. It’s a vicious cycle, and democrats continue to brag about how they were responsible for increasing wages, while refusing to point to the consequences of increasing wages.
Winner? Nobody. Loser? Everybody.
What a tightwad!
Make it $50!
That way their employers will be shut down for lack of labor and the miscreants can all go on a weight-loss program for lack of food money.
Joking aside, the lower echelons do have a point, cost of living is unsustainably high.
While we are at it rents should be raised to 248 / trillion a minute and a loaf of bread should be one trillion, gas 80 trillion a week. We all gonna be rich !!!
“Let’s make it $25. Nice round number.”
Likely just enough to buy a gallon of gas, if we go through kicking the Russians off SWIFT and find ourselves no longer having the world’s reserve currency.
But Unemployment pays $25 an Hour???
AND down the east coast, around Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota
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