Posted on 02/16/2020 8:27:53 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg released his plans for American workers on Saturday that promises raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, strengthening union protections and other concessions.
His proposals include signing legislation that would raise the minimum wage, providing employees with 12 weeks of paid family leave and seven days of paid sick leave, expanding overtime protections, prohibiting “right to work” laws for private-sector unions, preventing gender discrimination through several legislations, and guaranteeing the right to unionize and bargain collectively to public sector employees.
“I started out in an entry-level job, and in building my business, I have always believed that our company’s most valuable asset is our 20,000 employees–and that’s why we are committed to providing good pay and the best benefits money can buy, including industry-leading paid parental leave,” Bloomberg said in a statement.
Bloomberg’s plan echos some of the plans proposed by other Democratic candidates that have garnered widespread support. Frontrunners Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden have also proposed labor policies that would increase the minimum wage, provide workers with some sort of paid family leave, and broaden union powers.
The billionaire said his plan will also provide workers’ protections for farmworkers and domestic workers, such as the minimum wage, overtime pay, and other essential labor standards. The plan would also expand protections for undocumented workers by ensuring that they can join unions, report labor violations, and receives remedies without being afraid of immigration consequences.
He also said that his plans will protect pensions and retirement savings by passing legislation and provide workers in the “gig economy” with full employee benefits.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
NEA winks
This might have been the one thing that could drive Wall Street globalists to Donald Trump.
Nice to make promises that OTHER people have to actually pay for.
I say make it happen in Puerto Rico with an appointed economic Czar. Turn the place into a penal colony with a million inmates building up the destroyed island and making ‘only’ $15/hr. It’s not a gulag.
That’s called - talkin’ out your @ss cause your mouth knows better.
So my 2 and at times 3 part time jobs in 1960s to pay my own way through college was all in vain. $1.25 minimum wage (one job did not involve interstate commerce or $1 million company so no minimum wage coverage.).
Socialist/Communists after January, 2021 would have guaranteed me a huge wage and paid for free college.
If I had borrowed it would have paid my college loan debt off.
I’m waiting for Sanders to promise a car to go to college and free housing. Like the immigrant Tsarnov brothers who rode two BMWs in “doughnuts” in parking lots according to a pal, before blowing the arms and legs off children and adults at the Boston Marathon with a bomb.
I was born too soon. Should have waited for the glorious workers’ state paradise. Darn it.
"Bloomberg Announces Labor Plan Promising More Job Losses"
Plus he wants open borders...
Americans will be unemployable in their own country.
What a jerk.
Hours will be cut to wk with a loss of health and vacation benefits. They can legislate an hourly rate but not how to make it work.
Of course, it will cause massive poverty and dependence on the Government.
Funny I was just reading the post about Mitt Rommney when I started writing this and then I realized I was replying to the post about Bloomberg. I realized that in my mind that they are the same. Along with many other business leaders.
Republicans should get behind a counter offer of $12.50 minimum wage and get this divisive issue OFF THE TABLE.
Frank , Please tell me you understand how to adjust for inflation into 2019 dollars?
Tens of thousands of marginal employees will become unemployed immediately, and tens of thousands more over a few years.
The too low minimum wage causes use of govt assistance not the other way around.
I agree with you, but with massive illegal immigration a high minimum wage just causes unemployment among Americans not the illegals.
Even states who are not buying into this are already raising prices, doing away with workers in fast food, grocery stores putting in more scan/bag your own devices. Pizza places are now adding surcharges or stop delivering. Those rotating self check out are fine for a few items, not a weeks worth of groceries.
Nail salons will raise prices but since they are family owned jabbering Koreans won’t effect pay.
This might speed up automation in three trucking industry. Truckers love Trump and face a future of unemployment. In rural areas truck driving is one highest wage opportunities
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to establish a national minimum wage.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Simply put, corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification lawmakers exploit low-information voters by using the constitutionally indefensible campaign promise of minimum wage to win their votes to stay in power.
Remember in November!
MAGA! Now KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!)
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"The power to tax involves the power to destroy, [...]” —Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"The ill-conceived 17th Amendment not only effectively politically repealed the 3/4 state supermajority requirement of the Constitution’s Article V for ratification of proposed amendments to the Constitution imo, politically correct interpretations of the Constitution now prevailing under Democratic judicial tyranny, but also consider this. That amendment also effectively nullified Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers along with the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member.” —me
"Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
“Bloomberg announces plan to outlaw employment for low-value workers, transfer their work to higher value workers, and reduce high value workers pay to offset the lost productivity.”
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