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: 2) by deimtee on Wednesday November 11 2015, @10:31AM
You are conflating two different problems.
The H1-B situation needs to be addressed by giving H1-B's improved access to green cards and job switching. If they are good enough to fly halfway round the world to work for you, surely they are good enough to make a home in your country.
The HR situation with requiring degrees for everything would be self correcting if you could actually do that to the colleges. At the moment, I think the degree requirement is simply a basic check that you are not a complete moron, and that you can actually concentrate on working for ten minutes at a time.
Also, the government likes the current situation because parking everyone at college for three or four years is equivalent to reducing the unemployment rate by approx 10 percentage points. Mostly direct removal of workers, but there are also all the jobs created to babysit them.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday November 11 2015, @09:59PM
I'm fine with more green cards and no H1-Bs. The point is to leave the various HR departments no option but adjusting expectations.