Seattle Passes Ordinance For $15 Minimum Wage

$10 a hr is still better than 7.25 /hr

Or your $10/hr job going to china

 

I think it depends on what your are doing in manufacturing. And if you apply yourself. The problem is not that someone does or doesn't deserve more but forcing a company to pay their people more will only increase the costs of products which will have an effect on sales. If sales drop then profits drop and the unskilled or skilled but easily relocated jobs are easy kills.

Why do you think cars are made below the border?

 

agreed

 

BINGO!

It's called work for a reason. If you want more money work harder and it will come. People need to be encouraged to work, not rewarded for laziness.

 

In France I've heard they have terminals where you order and pay with a credit/debit card. So that will cut the staff in half.

Hong Kong and Switzerland have no minimum wage and low unemployment. They are also prosperous.

 

thank you very well said . You have to put your heart soul and sweat in into whatever you do to become successful .

 

Agreed

The question is , what should minumum wage be

 

Not sure how we got from minimum wage in Seattle to France but I'll buy it

 

Wasn't planning on it, but given how much better armed we are up here versus my southern BC friends (of which I have many) I'm okay if one starts

Actually, I keep on trying to get my southern friends to see just how awesome Northern BC is. It is spectacular! We have a massive territory with multiple mountain ranges. If you start at 100 mile house and head north it is a land mass the size of France, Belgium, and Holland combined with a population around a half million (mostly concentrated in small city centres). You have to see it to understand the amazing and sparsely populated territory. A territory that is perfectly suited to a well equipped Tacoma.

 

You're talking to me like I don't know anything about BC

 

If those businesses aren't paying minimum wage , why would they be moving due to an increase in minimum wage ?

 

congrats to seattle on the new unemployment & the new fancy machines to replace them.

 

Wtf is yuengling

 

And chain stores will increase prices nation-wide to cover the increased costs in the relatively few states that will pass this stupidity.
Fast food franchises will likely be one of the few exceptions... I see 10-20% difference in prices between fast food places in the same city, much less different states, but franchises are franchises and the owner sets the prices, not corporate.

 

Go suck a big one