Minimum Wage Hikes Fallout

[GURPS]

Why these workers want a LOWER minimum wage​

 

[BOP]

Why these workers want a LOWER minimum wage​

It's that old adage: follow the money. Saru Jayaraman has a vested interest, and it's not the goodness of her heart.

 

[WingsOfGold]

Can't believe it was 50 bucks at Denny's tonight for 2 with tip. Quit the pay raises, no tax on tips and the price of food just MIGHT come down.

 

[limblips]

Starbucks baristas on strike! The pierced, purple haired, liberal coffee servers want more money and better working conditions. Aside from their burnt sucky tasting coffee, another reason I won't/don't buy Starbucks.

 

[SamSpade]

Can't believe it was 50 bucks at Denny's tonight for 2 with tip. Quit the pay raises, no tax on tips and the price of food just MIGHT come down.

Yep. Last few times we've eaten out - 70-80 bucks and that's not even all of us.
I typically shop for groceries OFTEN, because I go to the pharmacy for my family often and - well we don't always PLAN very well.
But where a typical small cart of groceries might run 40-60 bucks - they're pushing close to 100 every trip.

We might have to just adjust to making smaller meals.

 

[GURPS]

Saru Jayaraman has a vested interest, and it's not the goodness of her heart.

She is certainly PUSHING the UNION ....
I think she is one of those idea-logs that DOSES NOT GIVE A F U C K consequences of her actions

1. #Because Everything MUST Be UNION
2. # Because Socialism / Marxism

 

[glhs837]

She is certainly PUSHING the UNION ....
I think she is one of those idea-logs that DOSES NOT GIVE A F U C K consequences of her actions

1. #Because Everything MUST Be UNION
2. # Because Socialism / Marxism

Scratch a unionist and they bleed communist red.

 

[stgislander]

I have no problem with trade unions. A barista is not a trade.

 

[Czar]

Another problem for lower income workers is thr lack of full time jobs, that an direct result of Obamacare. Employers adapted by shifting to a part-time employee model. Look around SM, mostly part-time service jobs.

 

[GURPS]

Can't believe it was 50 bucks at Denny's tonight for 2 with tip. Quit the pay raises, no tax on tips and the price of food just MIGHT come down.

McDonald's or Burger King for 2 is $ 25 bucks

 

[GURPS]

Scratch a unionist and they bleed communist red.

Or an environmentalist

Watermelon - Green on the Outside - Marxist on the inside

 

[Hijinx]

Yep. Last few times we've eaten out - 70-80 bucks and that's not even all of us.
I typically shop for groceries OFTEN, because I go to the pharmacy for my family often and - well we don't always PLAN very well.
But where a typical small cart of groceries might run 40-60 bucks - they're pushing close to 100 every trip.

We might have to just adjust to making smaller meals.

Loaf of bread and a package of potato rolls $9.17

 

[Sneakers]

McDonald's or Burger King for 2 is $ 25 bucks

I remember when a McD burger was 12 cents and a cheeseburger 15. Wetsons (local competitor) was 10 cents.

 

[SamSpade]

I remember when a McD burger was 12 cents and a cheeseburger 15. Wetsons (local competitor) was 10 cents.

You can probably find a YouTube of the video - but they had a commercial where a butler comes in with a covered platter.
Underneath, it had two cheeseburgers, fries and a drink - and the rich guy holds out his hand for the DIME LEFT OVER from the dollar.

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

Why these workers want a LOWER minimum wage​

The comment from this woman about tips for blacks after slavery ended is complete BS. Tipping has been done at taverns pretty much since taverns became a thing and well before the African slave trade even began.

 

[Sneakers]

You can probably find a YouTube of the video - but they had a commercial where a butler comes in with a covered platter.
Underneath, it had two cheeseburgers, fries and a drink - and the rich guy holds out his hand for the DIME LEFT OVER from the dollar.

I remember that. The "change back from your dollar" promotion.

 

[Czar]

McDonald's or Burger King for 2 is $ 25 bucks

Fools keep paying ever increasing prices, me included occasionally.

 

[BOP]

Another problem for lower income workers is thr lack of full time jobs, that an direct result of Obamacare. Employers adapted by shifting to a part-time employee model. Look around SM, mostly part-time service jobs.

As much as I'd like to lay that on Obama, it actually started in the '70s. You can lay that at the feet of women and feminism - another communist movement.

Women began demanding more and more flexible hours in order to accommodate having children. That led to the rise of temporary agencies, such as Manpower, and Kelly Girl (later Kelly Services), and it led to more and more part time/no benefit jobs where typically, those types of jobs were held by high school and college students, people in the military trying to earn a few extra bucks, and things like that. They were never intended to be full-time, fully compensated careers.

 

[BOP]

I remember when a McD burger was 12 cents and a cheeseburger 15. Wetsons (local competitor) was 10 cents.

Out in San Diego, back in the early '80s, Micky D's and Burger King both would run throw-back promotions with burgers and fries for those kinds of prices.

 

[Czar]

As much as I'd like to lay that on Obama, it actually started in the '70s. You can lay that at the feet of women and feminism - another communist movement.

Women began demanding more and more flexible hours in order to accommodate having children. That led to the rise of temporary agencies, such as Manpower, and Kelly Girl (later Kelly Services), and it led to more and more part time/no benefit jobs where typically, those types of jobs were held by high school and college students, people in the military trying to earn a few extra bucks, and things like that. They were never intended to be full-time, fully compensated careers.

It accelerated rapidly as companies were scrambling to avoid insurance mandates.