The Los Angeles City Council, May 19, on a 14-1 vote passed a plan to raise the minimum wage from $9 to $15 per hour by 2020.
The local unions are demanding to be exempt from the law.
How far labor has fallen. The message is now join us and we will fight to get you below minimum wage jobs.
Why they are doing this is obvious. Many businesses will no longer be profitable when forced to pay the newly mandated wages hence they will either:
- Close
- Move
- Layoff workers to reach an employee level that they can afford. This means that the employees who remain will be expected to work harder for their paycheck
- Automate.
It is feared that Hollywood is going to be especially affected.
Really stupid people are running government. Really stupid.
Money is a useful, beneficial communications tool. It is nothing more. It is not magic. It is not something to be worshiped. It does not automatically solve problems, despite what the progressive and “social justice” warrior types think.
Kevin D. Williamson of National Review, who once edited the Main Line Times, spells it out wonderfully in his article Bernie Sanders’s Dark Age Economics, which concerns the Vermont senator’s plan for a national minimum wage.
Union Minimum Wage Exemption is sought.
Union Minimum Wage Exemption is wanted.
Union Minimum Wage Exemption is desired.