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WC works in a union shop on does not want to leave in because of the benefits and security it provides him. He has admitted to this.
Cognitive dissonance much?
This is brutalizing, Randian, dog-eat-dog Social Darwinism. Americans seem to love (the idea of) America, but they sure love to screw over Americans.
The wealthy need more money so they get more motivation, but somehow that logic doesn't apply to the poor.
Also, tax expenditures for the 1% and corps don't need a pay-for, but anything for anybody else absolutely must have a pay-for, is how the Repugs see it.
The rich deserve to be rich and richer, God loves them best, and the poor deserve to be poor and poorer (Ryan's brutal austerity budget) because they are sinners and criminals, is how it goes in Randian politics.
USA is ed and able.
WC works in a union shop on does not want to leave in because of the benefits and security it provides him. He has admitted to this.
Cognitive dissonance much?
I'm OK with raising the minimum wage, though i think it will be meaningless in the end as other prices rise from inflation. Still, I'm game for that experiment. My only concern is doing it too quickly, and shocking the economy. We need to to it in increments. How does a quarterly 10% increase sound to you until we achieve the level we want?
The Burger Chain That Pays $10 An Hour With Benefits
Shake Shack, a burger chain with locations in Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. as well as international locations in the Middle East, Russia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, pays starting workers $9.50 an hour outside of New York City and $10 an hour for New Yorkers, CEO Randy Garutti told ThinkProgress. It also offers full-time employees health, dental, vision, retirement, and disability benefits plus paid time off.
But on average, workers get $10.70 an hour thanks to a program it calls Shack Bucks. Every month, it gives employees a percentage of the company’s top-line sales. “It’s sort of immediate revenue sharing, not a long-term program,” he noted.
The company pays about 70 percent of employees’ health care premiums and also matches contributions to their 401(k)s.
He added that he is “more excited” than all of these perks about how many employees move up into manager roles. “There are a lot of people who started making $9 an hour and are now general managers in our restaurants making very good money,” he said. The owners started in fine dining and brought the compensation practices from those restaurants into its original burger and hot dog stand.
When asked if these practices have come with concrete benefits for the company itself, he responded, “Absolutely,” adding, “Our turnover is lower, we can hire the best, they stay longer, and we can grow them into management.”
And it pays off for customers. “If the team feels taken care of, then they’ll go out and take care of the guests.”
And he thinks other business owners in the fast food industry can take this approach and see similar results. “I know they can,” he said. “Because I just know that it works.”
And Shake Shack isn’t the only eatery taking this approach to its workforce. Michigan’s Moo Cluck Moo pays entry-level workers $15 an hour, a move its owners say leads to less turnover, better customer service, and more skilled employees.
In-N-Out, a West Coast burger chain, pays $10.50 an hour for entry-level employees.
Outside of the burger world, Boston-based burrito chain Boloco pays starting workers anywhere from $9 to $11 an hour, which the owner says increases loyalty and productivity and, in turn, profitability.
In light of the conversation to raise the minimum wage, others have decided to join in. Two pizza companies in St. Louis will soon pay at least $10.10 an hour. It has also spread outside of the food industry: clothing retailer The Gap recently announced it will also raise its lowest wage to $10.
But the fast food industry is notorious for low pay, where workers make so little that they consume $243 billion in public benefits each year just to get by.
And while some executives argue that these jobs are just a starting place for teens earning extra cash, the reality is that the majority of workers are well out of their teenage years. Meanwhile, the average low-wage worker brings in half his or her family’s income, while more than a third of fast food workers are supporting children.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...ages-benefits/
Are you still making the argument that paying people better makes for better employees?
Now where is this incentive if the worse workers are required to be paid $10/hr.Our turnover is lower, we can hire the best, they stay longer, and we can grow them into management.
Please note that this is because they pay higher than minimum. Bad workers do not become good workers by paying them more.
Take you Randian, punitive bull and stick it up your ass. To keep "whipping" people with ty wages until their morale/work improves doesn't work.
It's on the employer to choose employees, even low-wage employees, carefully. If a hiring mistake is made, the employee is let go.
I see my arguments go way over your head.
I see your head is habitually up your ass
Bad workers are bad workers, you can pay them as much or a little as you want and they will still be bad workers, but you shouldn't assume that someone making minimum wage is a "bad worker" just because they get a ty paycheck. I know people who bust their ass every day for pennies, and I know people who are the definition of lazy that make a ton of money. Perhaps some of these low wage workers just haven't gained the knowledge or skills to move into a better position, but how do you expect them to actively seek the resources to gain that extra knowledge or acquire those extra skills when they can barely afford to feed, cloth, and shelter themselves.
Higher pay may not always create an incentive for better work in all people, but low pay certainly tends to create disincentive to work harder. Most low wage workers are under the impression that their employers couldn't give a about them, and in most cases they're right. Why should they be busting their ass just so their boss's boss's boss can line their pockets? If they work harder, and don't get rewarded (see increased worker production vs increased worker wages over the last 30 years) where is the incentive to keep working hard?
WC
Offering higher pay will theoretically give a company an advantage in the type of applicants they get to choose from compared to the same company offering low wages... Is this reasonable?
Paul Ryan Claims Most Minimum Wage Workers Are Young And Just Starting Out
Yet the majority of low-wage workers who would benefit from raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour are not in fact teenagers getting a foothold in the workforce, but rather grown-ups with rent, medical bills, and often children. Nearly 90 percent of these workers are older than 20. “The typical worker who would be affected by an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2015 looks nothing like the part-time, teen stereotype,” according to the Economic Policy Ins ute. “She is in her early thirties, works full-time, and may have a family to support.”
Nationwide, these workers provide almost exactly half of their families’ income. One in five American children has a parent like Alicia McCrary who would benefit from raising the minimum wage.
And in Ryan’s own state, 87 percent of workers affected by the proposed minimum wage hike are older than 20, while nearly a quarter-million children would see their family income rise thanks to a $10.10 minimum wage.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...age-teenagers/
I think Paul Ryan has spent too much trying to ban online poker. That guy is living in an alternate universe. Maybe he should work minimum wage for a year and see if he likes it.
Paul Ryan is living in the past with that thought. It used to be true. Since we now buy most our goods from Malaysia, China, and other nations.... we have less factory wage jobs here.
Taking On Big-Business Wage Theft
Despite the extensive press coverage of the fight of fast-food workers for a $15 hourly wage, one recent development hasn’t gotten much attention: fast-food workers around the country have started to win significant wage-theft lawsuits against McDonald’s franchisees, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. These lawsuits raise an important question: How has McDonald’s been able to get away with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from low-wage workers? The answer is straightforward. Our system for enforcement has been so severely weakened that many employers are able to regularly violate workers’ basic rights. And the law itself is broken. Its structure allows corporations like McDonald’s to escape responsibility for the conditions in their workplaces.
In February, student guest workers won a lawsuit that charged a McDonald’s franchise in Pennsylvania with wage theft. They had been paid sub-minimum wages, denied overtime pay and charged exorbitant prices for company housing. The Department of Labor required the franchise to pay $205,977 to both guest workers and native-born workers at the franchise. This victory was rapidly followed by a wave of other lawsuits around the country.
Last week, McDonald’s workers in three cities launched highly publicized cases charging the corporation with wage theft. These workers had experienced many types of wage theft. The workers in California claim that they were not paid for overtime work. In Michigan, workers are asserting that they were required to show up for work but were not allowed to clock in. Workers in New York allege that they were not compensated for the time they spent cleaning their uniforms, required to do work off the clock and not paid overtime. The New York suit was almost immediately successful. Last week, seven franchises agreed to settle for almost $500,000.
McDonald’s workers are not alone. Wage theft has become a widespread problem in low-wage industries in the United States. An influential study found that more than two-thirds (68 percent) of workers had experienced some form of wage theft in their previous week of work:
They were paid below the minimum wage,
not paid for overtime,
required to work off the clock or
had their breaks limited.
An organization of fast-food workers in New York City surveyed workers and found that 84 percent of workers had experienced wage theft in the last year.
Addressing wage theft will take a two-pronged solution: rebuilding the enforcement system in the U.S., and cutting through the smokescreen of subcontracting and franchising to hold employers responsible for the wages and working conditions in their workplaces.
The enforcement regime in the United States has been significantly weakened over the last several decades. There has been an overall downward trend in funding for the Department of Labor. The number of labor inspectors had plummeted for years. The Obama administration has added new inspectors, but not enough to make up for the long-term decline. Meanwhile, the number of workers who need protection has grown. This pattern has to be turned on its head. If rampant wage theft is to be stopped, we need to radically increase the number of labor inspectors on the ground.
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http://www.nationalmemo.com/taking-b...ss-wage-theft/
Dept of Labor and NLRB are two orgs the Repugs want to defund to zero, if they can't actually dissolve them.
And you ers keep voting for Repugs
9 of the top 10 occupations in America pay less than $35k a year
According to stunning new numbers just released by the federal government, nine of the top ten most commonly held jobs in the United States pay an average wage of less than $35,000 a year. When you break that down, that means that most of these workers are making less than $3,000 a month before taxes. And once you consider how we are being taxed into oblivion, things become even more frightening. Can you pay a mortgage and support a family on just a couple grand a month?
Of course not. In the old days, a single income would enable a family to live a very comfortable middle class lifestyle in most cases. But now those days are long gone. In 2014, both parents are expected to work, and in many cases both of them have to get multiple jobs just in order to break even at the end of the month.
The decline in the quality of our jobs is a huge reason for the implosion of the middle class in this country. You can’t have a middle class without middle class jobs, and we have witnessed a multi-decade decline in middle class jobs in the United States. As long as this trend continues, the middle class is going to continue to shrink.
The following is a list of the most commonly held jobs in America according to the federal government. As you can see, 9 of the top 10 most commonly held occupations pay an average wage of less than $35,000 a year…
- Retail sales persons, 4.48 million workers earning $25,370
- Cashiers 3.34 million workers earning $20,420
- Food prep and serving staff, 3.02 million workers earning$18,880
- General office clerk, 2.83 million working earning $29,990
- Registered nurses, 2.66 million workers earning $68,910
- Waiters and waitresses, 2.40 million workers earning$20,880
- Customer service representatives, 2.39 million workers earning $33,370
- Laborers, and freight and material movers, 2.28 million workers earning $26,690
- Secretaries and admins (not legal or medical), 2.16 million workers earning $34,000
- Janitors and cleaners (not maids), 2.10 million workers earning, $25,140
http://intellihub.com/9-top-10-occup...less-35k-year/
And the nurses absolutely work their rears off. Much more likely to get some infection that is really bad as well.
Saw this wonderful, impressive lady last night on Bill Moyers.
She totally destroys the NRA, OVER AND OVER AND OVER
All Work and No Pay
http://billmoyers.com/episode/all-work-and-no-pay/
America, one nasty ing country.
Governor Bans Minimum Wage Increases And Paid Sick Leave Laws
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) has gone in the opposite direction and signed a law banning cities from passing higher wages. The bill also bans them from enacting paid sick days or vacation requirements.
The law will stymie the efforts of activists in Oklahoma City, where a labor federation has led the push on a pe ion to raise the city’s minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. The state’s current minimum has been set at the federal level of $7.25. In 2012, 64,000 workers in the state earned $7.25 an hour or less, making up 7.2 percent of all hourly workers, a larger share than the 4.7 percent figure for the country as a whole.
Fallin said she signed the bill out of the worry that higher local minimum wages “would drive businesses to other communities and states, and would raise prices for consumers.” She also argued that “most minimum wage workers are young, single people working part-time or entry level jobs” and that “many are high school or college students living with their parents in middle-class families.” She warned that increasing the minimum wage “would require businesses to fire many of those part-time workers” and harm job creation.
But that’s not what the typical American minimum wage worker looks like. Nearly 90 percent of workers who would be impacted by an increase in the wage are older than 20, while the average age is 35. More than a quarter have children to support. More than half work full time, and 44 percent have at least some college education, while half a million minimum wage workers are college graduates.
Meanwhile, experts have analyzed state minimum wage increases over two decades and found that even at times of high unemployment, there is no clear evidence that the hikes affected job creation. Five other studies have come to the same conclusion. The same has held true for the city of San Francisco, where employment grew by more than 5 percent after it passed a higher minimum wage while nearby counties experienced declines.
Oklahoma is not the only state to pass a blanket ban on raising the wage. Wisconsin lawmakers recently considered doing the same, and Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) signed a law that prevents local governments from requiring contractors to pay higher wages last year.
According to Paul Sonn, general counsel and program director at the National Employment Law Project, a handful of mostly Republican-leaning states passed these kinds of bans about a decade ago, including Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oregon, and Texas.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...id-sick-leave/
so you minimum wage redstate red necks still voting Repug?
LOL...Governor Bans Minimum Wage Increases And Paid Sick Leave Laws
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) has gone in the opposite direction and signed a law banning cities from passing higher wages. The bill also bans them from enacting paid sick days or vacation requirements.
The law will stymie the efforts of activists in Oklahoma City, where a labor federation has led the push on a pe ion to raise the city’s minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. The state’s current minimum has been set at the federal level of $7.25. In 2012, 64,000 workers in the state earned $7.25 an hour or less, making up 7.2 percent of all hourly workers, a larger share than the 4.7 percent figure for the country as a whole.
Fallin said she signed the bill out of the worry that higher local minimum wages “would drive businesses to other communities and states, and would raise prices for consumers.” She also argued that “most minimum wage workers are young, single people working part-time or entry level jobs” and that “many are high school or college students living with their parents in middle-class families.” She warned that increasing the minimum wage “would require businesses to fire many of those part-time workers” and harm job creation.
But that’s not what the typical American minimum wage worker looks like. Nearly 90 percent of workers who would be impacted by an increase in the wage are older than 20, while the average age is 35. More than a quarter have children to support. More than half work full time, and 44 percent have at least some college education, while half a million minimum wage workers are college graduates.
Meanwhile, experts have analyzed state minimum wage increases over two decades and found that even at times of high unemployment, there is no clear evidence that the hikes affected job creation. Five other studies have come to the same conclusion. The same has held true for the city of San Francisco, where employment grew by more than 5 percent after it passed a higher minimum wage while nearby counties experienced declines.
Oklahoma is not the only state to pass a blanket ban on raising the wage. Wisconsin lawmakers recently considered doing the same, and Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) signed a law that prevents local governments from requiring contractors to pay higher wages last year.
According to Paul Sonn, general counsel and program director at the National Employment Law Project, a handful of mostly Republican-leaning states passed these kinds of bans about a decade ago, including Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oregon, and Texas.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...id-sick-leave/
so you minimum wage redstate red necks still voting Repug?
Another stupid and ignorant link posted by B- !
LOL...According to Paul Sonn, general counsel and program director at the National Employment Law Project, a handful of mostly Republican-leaning states passed these kinds of bans about a decade ago, including Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oregon, and Texas.
Oregon has the second highest minimum wages in the nation, by law, contrary to what the link claims.
Once again, boutons is listening and regurgitating the leftist leaders of lies, and never verifying facts.
I knew Oregon had a higher-than-fed, but not high enough, STATE minimum wage, AND blocks cities from raising the state wage higher, just as the article claims.
"A few others —Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, South Carolina, Oregon and
now Wisconsin — have passed laws that actually forbid citywide minimum wage laws.3"
http://brennan.3cdn.net/61d71f6dc9f7..._phm6bx3n9.pdf
I call bull . I would like to see the Oregon statute that prevents a city from making a higher minimum wage than the state.
"Do Your Own Research" -- WC
LOL...
You idiot. Note 39 in your link does not support the contention they make. How am I going to prove a law doesn't exist?
I have lived in Oregon all my life except during my military service, and I have never heard of this. That is why I say your source is bull .
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