In the leftist “mind” all employers exploit their employees and earn an obscene profit off their work.
Reality: business owners work their a$$e$ off and get little in return, with the government up their a$$e$ with regulations and taxes.
Their end goal is to destroy private business ownership and put it all in the hands of government.
Our local pizza shop is getting killed by the higher cost of produce/ materials and the recession with less folks going out to eat. But when the min. wage goes up, he has to pay his worst workers that, and he wants to reward his better workers so he pays them more. And the price of pizza goes up so fewer folks come in to eat.....
We used to eat there as a special treat as the pies were expensive years ago. We go once a week now in an attempt to give him support. Great pizza! But if things don’t turn around quick I’m not sure if he can hold on.
I would think they could have a case based on State or Federal pre-emption. If the state or feds say that minimum wage should be “x”, then I don’t see how a local town or city has a right to override what the state or Feds say the minimum wage should be. There are plenty of precedents established in other area of the law that allow the state gov or federal gov to override town and city laws!