Seattle Plans $15 minimum wage

[AuH20]

WTH are they thinking?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/01/seattle-plans-15-minimum-wage/

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray on Thursday proposed a phased-in increase of the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next seven years – a compromise endorsed by both business and labor.


If ultimately approved, Seattle would move toward having the highest minimum wage of any city in the United States. Currently San Francisco, at $10.55 an hour, has that distinction.

Under the mayor’s plan, businesses with more than 500 employees nationally will have at least three years to phase in the increase. Those providing health insurance will have four years to complete the move.

Smaller organizations will be given seven years, with the new wage including a consideration for tips and health care costs over the first five years.

 

[Carlybee]

If business endorsed it then they have no one to blame but when they start charging $10 for a jar of mayo and no one buys it they may regret it.

 

[Ronin Truth]

Well that ought to succeed in shutting down the Seattle fast food industry.

 

[AuH20]

Well that ought to succeed in shutting down the Seattle fast food industry.

And poor people are more reliant on fast food these days. We're watching stupidity on a grand scale.

 

[Carlybee]

Mayors are becoming dictators with sycophantic city councils. That being said everyone I know who lives there is for it. Of course they are all libs with no economic sense whatsoever. So If you are currently making $15 an hour you just got a demotion and whatever it took for you to get to that wage now has no value.

 

[Wadesc]

This might slide without catastrophe since it is phased in over 7 years...

Depending on how the economy as a whole works out in regards to inflation.

If they instantly lifted min wage to 15 dollars it would have been one of the most hilarious moments in Seattle history... They would have been a posterchild for economic suicide.

 

[Ronin Truth]

And poor people are more reliant on fast food these days. We're watching stupidity on a grand scale.

Not to mention also losing a lot more of their jobs.

 

[Carlybee]

If it got people off welfare it might be worth it but you know that won't happen.

 

[oyarde]

He is being to cautious , just go to $18 next week, that will fix everything .LOL

 

[Red Green]

Starbucks unveiling new "RoboBarrista" in 3...,2.....,1.....

 

[limequat]

I anxiously await any major city to drastically increase the minimum wage.
As long as I get to point and laugh afterwards.

 

[Carlybee]

Starbucks unveiling new "RoboBarrista" in 3...,2.....,1.....

They have robo salad bar at
Jasons Deli now.

 

[Schifference]

Any increase in the minimum wage is a pay cut for everyone that earns above the minimum wage.

 

[Xenliad]

This will be a great experiment. We should all eagerly await the results.

 

[JK/SEA]

Starbucks unveiling new "RoboBarrista" in 3...,2.....,1.....

would still need repair people...15 bucks an hour to fix a coffee machine?

 

[JK/SEA]

its a good time to quit fast food..

 

[Ronin Truth]

Any increase in the minimum wage is a pay cut for everyone that earns above the minimum wage.

A number of labor unions tie their contracts wages to minimum wage increases.

 

[Red Green]

would still need repair people...15 bucks an hour to fix a coffee machine?

Repair people already get more than that. It's a skilled position.

 

[JK/SEA]

Repair people already get more than that. It's a skilled position.

thats my point.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Sweet, time to work in Seattle and send my money back to Mexico.