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Hundreds of fast food workers are striking nationwide Tuesday, joining other workers in pressing for a more livable wage. But while some say $15 is a minimum needed to survive, some business owners say dishing out more pay would leave them struggling to keep their doors open.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fast-food-workers-strike-again-nationwide-for-15-an-hour
In New York City, rallies are being held in Harlem, the Financial District and Brooklyn in support of efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, reports CBS New York.
In Los Angeles, the local protests are organized by Service Employees International Union, and include fast-food, home-care and child-care workers, along with other "underpaid" employees, reports CBS Los Angeles.
"Is this the America we believe in? When someone works all day long and they still can't get by," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said during an early-morning rally in Downtown Brooklyn. "Does anyone believe that it's easy to get by in New York City on less than $15 an hour?"
Critics say a $15 minimum wage would obliterate opportunity and usher in higher taxes, but de Blasio said the opposite is true -- with more money to spend, low wage workers contribute more to the economy.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 11 2015, @07:19AM
Someone told me that's a communist front. I haven't checked it out for myself. Hmmm -
Wow! Communist Front! Kinda hard to be that anymore, since there is no Communist Back? Why not just say "Communist", or "Economic Democracy", or working class. Sometimes, Mr. Runaway1956, I bethinks meself that thou are in the 1956, with your pal Congressman Joe McCarthy.
Whatever - skilled craftsmen in much of the country can't get fifteen bucks. Sorry, people, but if a journeyman carpenter can't get that much, WTF makes you think some kid bagging up hamburgers and fries should get that much?
Pounding nails and using a cut-off saw is that much more skilled than flipping burgers and practicing proper food hygiene? Come back to talk to us when you are a master carpenter, or a master chef, or, of course, a master baiter, you troller! Had me going! Thought it actually was a minnow!
If the minimum wage goes up to $15, a couple things are going to happen. The purchasing power of the dollar is going to go down, just as it always does after a minimum wage increase. Your $15 may or may not remain equal to the purchasing power that you now have - probably not though.
Actual facts do not agree with your sucking up to capitalists and Paul Ryan presumptions. Purchasing power goes down when the Fed increases the interest rate on T-Bills. You ought to know that. And besides, it is not at all about "minimum wage", it is about a "liveable wage". Why should the rest of us subsidize companies who underpay their workers, just because government will pick up the costs of food, shelter, and medical care? I say, cut them off. Minimun wage, $25/hour, and if you do not pay this, your employees will be ineligible for any government assistance, and I mean any. Work for Walmart? No Social Security for you, gramps! Work for MickyD's? No medicare, even under your parents plan, and definitely no Obama care. Of course, if you quit these slaver jobs, then we will support you. But not your employer. If a company cannot afford for its workers to live, it deserves to die. With extreme, and communist, prejudice.
(Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Wednesday November 11 2015, @08:36AM
What about the poor unemployed corps?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @11:39AM
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:30PM
"Pounding nails and using a cut-off saw is that much more skilled than flipping burgers and practicing proper food hygiene? Come back to talk to us when you are a master carpenter, or a master chef, or, of course, a master baiter, you troller! Had me going! Thought it actually was a minnow!"
You are describing a third class carpenter's HELPER. I specifically said "journeyman carpenter". Despite the fact that you are being a wise guy, I'm here to inform you that a MASTER carpenter doesn't get $20 around these parts, unless he owns his own business. We don't all live in the big cities on the left or right coast.