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The ONLY interest that a union has in minimum wage is as it relates to the prevailing wage laws in some states. Union wages based upon a percentage above minimum wage will rise automatically (without the expense of contract negotiations) as minimum wage rises.Yeah, Zeke. That's wrong. How would union membership increase by raising min wage? It wont.Poor Zeke. Dumb as a rock.Splain it to us Rabbi
What economic force causes wages to go up if you drop minimum wage?
Can you explain why there are any jobs that pay more than the minimum wage? In fact, 97% of all jobs pay more than minimum wage.
3% OF THE WORK FORCE GET MINIMUM WAGE YET AN INCREASE OF A DOLLAR OR TWO WOULD CAUSE EVERYTHING TO RISE IN PRICES.
Do you understand how fucking stupid that make the MW haters sound. 3% of the lowest paid workers have all this tremendous monetary/pricing power. The ability to change the economy you all say.
Fucking that's crazy. Give the poor people a raise.
Hey, Zeke, why do you think unions constatntly push for higher min wage? You think it's because they represent "the working man"?? ROFL!
You really are a silly fucking rabbit.
SO go ahead rabbit, why do unions push for higher minimum wage?
Maybe they want to expand the numbers of union members. I wish they could. I wish we had the same amount of union representation that we had in the 50ties and 60ties. Back when the middle class was succeeding, growing, prospering and driving the consumer economy.
Of course, you being the white piece of trash you are have never enjoyed prosperity at any level. You a bankrupt fuck. If not actually, certainly morally.
Guess again. Or maybe go do some research.
People should be paid what their labor is worth.I doubt anyone that works for minimum wages would say that the minimum wage serves no purpose.
Anyone that makes more than minimum wage is in no position to suggest what purpose MW has on the worker that depends on minimum wage.
I make well above the minimum and I do so for one reason. If the only job someone has he skills to do pays the minimum, the problem is with them not the one doing the paying. Since those being forced to pay someone with minimum skills more than those skills are worth on the open market in many cases and labor costs affect what the rest of us that make above it pay, we very much have a say.
Someone on minimum wage that has the skills to only make that wage is the problem.
Actually the biggest problem is China. Within a decade China is going to have so many workers who have more skills than many Americans, and this is going to change everything.
The US should be changing the way education is focused so that it can deal with the modern world. It's not and the kids of today are going to suffer.
People should be paid a wage that they can live on, without frills and stuff. But with education and skills then you can have a workforce that will be able to compete, to set itself up as more about quality than about quantity etc.
Thanks but I wanted Zeke to figure that one out for himself. He cant. He wont. He'll just call us both names or ditch the thread for another sixer of Blatz.The ONLY interest that a union has in minimum wage is as it relates to the prevailing wage laws in some states. Union wages based upon a percentage above minimum wage will rise automatically (without the expense of contract negotiations) as minimum wage rises.Yeah, Zeke. That's wrong. How would union membership increase by raising min wage? It wont.Poor Zeke. Dumb as a rock.Can you explain why there are any jobs that pay more than the minimum wage? In fact, 97% of all jobs pay more than minimum wage.
3% OF THE WORK FORCE GET MINIMUM WAGE YET AN INCREASE OF A DOLLAR OR TWO WOULD CAUSE EVERYTHING TO RISE IN PRICES.
Do you understand how fucking stupid that make the MW haters sound. 3% of the lowest paid workers have all this tremendous monetary/pricing power. The ability to change the economy you all say.
Fucking that's crazy. Give the poor people a raise.
Hey, Zeke, why do you think unions constatntly push for higher min wage? You think it's because they represent "the working man"?? ROFL!
You really are a silly fucking rabbit.
SO go ahead rabbit, why do unions push for higher minimum wage?
Maybe they want to expand the numbers of union members. I wish they could. I wish we had the same amount of union representation that we had in the 50ties and 60ties. Back when the middle class was succeeding, growing, prospering and driving the consumer economy.
Of course, you being the white piece of trash you are have never enjoyed prosperity at any level. You a bankrupt fuck. If not actually, certainly morally.
Guess again. Or maybe go do some research.
Again, the unions only purpose is to get theirs and fuck everyone else.
Yeah but then politiicians couldnt run on cute slogans like "Let's give America a raise" like the money was coming from their own pockets.People should be paid what their labor is worth.I doubt anyone that works for minimum wages would say that the minimum wage serves no purpose.
Anyone that makes more than minimum wage is in no position to suggest what purpose MW has on the worker that depends on minimum wage.
I make well above the minimum and I do so for one reason. If the only job someone has he skills to do pays the minimum, the problem is with them not the one doing the paying. Since those being forced to pay someone with minimum skills more than those skills are worth on the open market in many cases and labor costs affect what the rest of us that make above it pay, we very much have a say.
Someone on minimum wage that has the skills to only make that wage is the problem.
Actually the biggest problem is China. Within a decade China is going to have so many workers who have more skills than many Americans, and this is going to change everything.
The US should be changing the way education is focused so that it can deal with the modern world. It's not and the kids of today are going to suffer.
People should be paid a wage that they can live on, without frills and stuff. But with education and skills then you can have a workforce that will be able to compete, to set itself up as more about quality than about quantity etc.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Their ability to live on their labor is not the responsibility of anyone but themselves.
Total nonsense. The corporations are not running the government and making them hand over subsidies. Liberals are the culprit for voting in candidates that push social policies. I know it hard for you and those like you but if you could slow down a hair and think...if a company needs a body around they will have to pay them enough to keep them around. If employees can get subsidized by do gooders then corporations don't need to pay as much. You have it exactly ass backwards.The biggest fallacy about focusing on the Minimum Wage is ignoring the consequences of NOT paying anyone a living wage for working 8 hours a day.
As taxpayers we subsidize the housing and healthcare of those making minimum wages. That is Corporate Welfare.
No business deserves to have the benefit of taxpayer subsidized employees.
So until we stop blaming the victims and look at this as what it really is in reality, Corporate Welfare, we will never resolve the problem.
Yes, because fascism has always worked out so well.I support an entire shift in approach. Instead of raising the minimum wage, there should be a maximum wage, that ties CEO compensation to a more sustainable level compared to lowest tier employee compensation, in conjunction with an abolition of the minimum wage. But in order to really effect meaningful change, gotta get the illegals out of jobs that Americans should be filling.
Well, you're being a little hard on the zekester there, aren't you? lol You know he won't get there on his own.Thanks but I wanted Zeke to figure that one out for himself. He cant. He wont. He'll just call us both names or ditch the thread for another sixer of Blatz.The ONLY interest that a union has in minimum wage is as it relates to the prevailing wage laws in some states. Union wages based upon a percentage above minimum wage will rise automatically (without the expense of contract negotiations) as minimum wage rises.Yeah, Zeke. That's wrong. How would union membership increase by raising min wage? It wont.Poor Zeke. Dumb as a rock.
3% OF THE WORK FORCE GET MINIMUM WAGE YET AN INCREASE OF A DOLLAR OR TWO WOULD CAUSE EVERYTHING TO RISE IN PRICES.
Do you understand how fucking stupid that make the MW haters sound. 3% of the lowest paid workers have all this tremendous monetary/pricing power. The ability to change the economy you all say.
Fucking that's crazy. Give the poor people a raise.
Hey, Zeke, why do you think unions constatntly push for higher min wage? You think it's because they represent "the working man"?? ROFL!
You really are a silly fucking rabbit.
SO go ahead rabbit, why do unions push for higher minimum wage?
Maybe they want to expand the numbers of union members. I wish they could. I wish we had the same amount of union representation that we had in the 50ties and 60ties. Back when the middle class was succeeding, growing, prospering and driving the consumer economy.
Of course, you being the white piece of trash you are have never enjoyed prosperity at any level. You a bankrupt fuck. If not actually, certainly morally.
Guess again. Or maybe go do some research.
Again, the unions only purpose is to get theirs and fuck everyone else.
People should be paid what their labor is worth.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Their ability to live on their labor is not the responsibility of anyone but themselves.
The ONLY interest that a union has in minimum wage is as it relates to the prevailing wage laws in some states. Union wages based upon a percentage above minimum wage will rise automatically (without the expense of contract negotiations) as minimum wage rises.Yeah, Zeke. That's wrong. How would union membership increase by raising min wage? It wont.Poor Zeke. Dumb as a rock.Can you explain why there are any jobs that pay more than the minimum wage? In fact, 97% of all jobs pay more than minimum wage.
3% OF THE WORK FORCE GET MINIMUM WAGE YET AN INCREASE OF A DOLLAR OR TWO WOULD CAUSE EVERYTHING TO RISE IN PRICES.
Do you understand how fucking stupid that make the MW haters sound. 3% of the lowest paid workers have all this tremendous monetary/pricing power. The ability to change the economy you all say.
Fucking that's crazy. Give the poor people a raise.
Hey, Zeke, why do you think unions constatntly push for higher min wage? You think it's because they represent "the working man"?? ROFL!
You really are a silly fucking rabbit.
SO go ahead rabbit, why do unions push for higher minimum wage?
Maybe they want to expand the numbers of union members. I wish they could. I wish we had the same amount of union representation that we had in the 50ties and 60ties. Back when the middle class was succeeding, growing, prospering and driving the consumer economy.
Of course, you being the white piece of trash you are have never enjoyed prosperity at any level. You a bankrupt fuck. If not actually, certainly morally.
Guess again. Or maybe go do some research.
Again, the unions only purpose is to get theirs and fuck everyone else.
Good God RabbiSupply and demand.Splain it to us RabbiHe's right. If you had bothered to take an Econ course you would understand that. Of course they don't offer Econ 101 in 4th grade, your last grade completed, so I can't blame you completely.Do you even read the English language? Walker is claiming employers will pay HIGHER wages if we remove the minimum wageDo you think workers will work for nothing out the goodness of their own hearts?Walker makes a lot of sense.......if you don't require a minimum wage, employers will pay two or three times that out of the goodness of their heart
Fool.
Defend it
What economic force causes wages to go up if you drop minimum wage?
I could explain it but it's like explaining astrophysics to a hamster.
Minimum wage buys less now that it did when set at $0.75 and hour.He's being under attack for saying stuff that is completely true.
“I want jobs that pay two or three times the minimum wage,” Walker said, adding, “The way you do that is not by (setting) an arbitrary amount by the state.”
Does that mean the first-term Republican governor opposes a minimum wage on principle?
During Tuesday's meeting with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'sEditorial Board, Walker was asked to clarify his position. He didn't hesitate.
“I'm not going to repeal it,” Walker said. “But I don't think it serves a purpose because we're debating then about what the lowest levels are at. I want people to make, like I said the other night, two or three times that.”
Walker said he wants to help people get the skills they need to find careers that pay many times the current minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour.
“The jobs I focus on, the programs we put in place, the training we put in place is not for people to get minimum wage jobs,” he said.
Liberal groups and labor organizations immediately went on the attack, tearing into the governor for saying he doesn’t think the minimum wage “serves a purpose.”
First out of the box was American Bridge — a Democratic Super PAC — which had video of the quote posted before the Editorial Board had concluded.
Then Walker came under fire from his campaign foe, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. She has said she wants to raise the minimum wage in three stages to $10.10 an hour.
“Well, I disagree with it entirely,” Burke told Journal Sentinel reporter Bill Glauber in response to Walker’s comment earlier in the day. “It's important that people who are working fulltime are able to support themselves without government assistance. That's just sort of common sense.”
She said that reducing the number of people on the public dole would reduce the state budget and improve the economy, adding that many business owners she knows supporting increasing the minimum wage.
“I want to make sure people are able to have the pride of having a full-time job and supporting themselves,” Burke said.
A number of liberal websites — such as Talking Points Memo, Huffington Post and Think Progress — jumped on Walker’s comment.
Finally, a top labor official tried to take the governor to task.
“For nearly a century, American workers have relied on minimum wage protections,” said Stephanie Bloomingdale, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. “Now is not the time to take away these important laws,” she continued. “Now is the time to raise the minimum wage so that people who get up and go to work every day can have a decent standard of living.”
This is the second remark from the debate for which Walker has come under strong criticism.
In the first, the governor said, “We don’t have a jobs problem in this state. We have a work problem.”
Burke and other Democrats ripped the statement, suggesting he is ignoring the fact that Wisconsin trails other states in job growth.
Walker countered in a 30-second ad earlier this week.
He has said the statement at the debate concerned the so-called “skills gap,” the notion that good jobs in the state aren’t being filled because of a lack of trained workers.
“Mary Burke is distorting my comments on jobs,” Walker said in the commercial. “It’s no wonder. The tax-and-spend policies she supports drove out good-paying manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin.”
The two candidates for the state’s top office will square off again Friday, sparking a second round of debate — and TV ads — over what is meant and said.
Link:
Scott Walker says he doesn t believe minimum wage serves a purpose - JSOnline
Does the min. wage serve a purpose or should companies be allowed to pay what the market dictates?
Hey, there is little demand for unskilled labor.Good God RabbiSupply and demand.Splain it to us RabbiHe's right. If you had bothered to take an Econ course you would understand that. Of course they don't offer Econ 101 in 4th grade, your last grade completed, so I can't blame you completely.Do you even read the English language? Walker is claiming employers will pay HIGHER wages if we remove the minimum wageDo you think workers will work for nothing out the goodness of their own hearts?
Fool.
Defend it
What economic force causes wages to go up if you drop minimum wage?
I could explain it but it's like explaining astrophysics to a hamster.
Supply and Demand is the best you could come up with? How does Supply and Demand do anything but decrease wages below existing minimum wage levels?
You really aren't too good at math are ya?
Corporate welfare is a problem.You mean, "the consequences of a worker trying to support himself (and possibly a family) by doing only work that does not create the revenue it takes to pay for it", don't you?the consequences of NOT paying anyone a living wage for working 8 hours a day.
Blaming the victim does not resolve the problem.
Corporate Welfare is the problem.
Give me sound fiscal reasons why any corporation is entitled to the benefits of subsidized employees. Your desire for a cheap Big Mac is not a sound fiscal reason.
More than 60% of minimum wage dollars paid go to kids living at home in middle class households.Lefties must be desperate to post this junk. Didn't you have enough of Obama claiming that minimum wage jobs were the the best he could come up with? Who could argue with a politician who wants jobs that pay two or three times minimum wage?
Yeah but then politiicians couldnt run on cute slogans like "Let's give America a raise" like the money was coming from their own pockets.People should be paid what their labor is worth.I doubt anyone that works for minimum wages would say that the minimum wage serves no purpose.
Anyone that makes more than minimum wage is in no position to suggest what purpose MW has on the worker that depends on minimum wage.
I make well above the minimum and I do so for one reason. If the only job someone has he skills to do pays the minimum, the problem is with them not the one doing the paying. Since those being forced to pay someone with minimum skills more than those skills are worth on the open market in many cases and labor costs affect what the rest of us that make above it pay, we very much have a say.
Someone on minimum wage that has the skills to only make that wage is the problem.
Actually the biggest problem is China. Within a decade China is going to have so many workers who have more skills than many Americans, and this is going to change everything.
The US should be changing the way education is focused so that it can deal with the modern world. It's not and the kids of today are going to suffer.
People should be paid a wage that they can live on, without frills and stuff. But with education and skills then you can have a workforce that will be able to compete, to set itself up as more about quality than about quantity etc.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Their ability to live on their labor is not the responsibility of anyone but themselves.
People should be paid a wage that they can live on
People should be paid a wage that they can live on
Even if that wage is above what their skills are worth?
People should be paid a wage that they can live on
Even if that wage is above what their skills are worth?
How much is a person's skill worth?
What the one doing the paying offers. What people like you, meaning someone that doesn't own another person's business, thinks a business owner should pay is irrelevant. If you think certain jobs are worth a certain amount, start a business in that field and pay your employees what you think they should pay.
