One of my previous jobs was factory work. I worked for an employer that have employers 25 cents per year raise.... Minimum wage went up 75 cents..... here ya go, here is your dinky quarter. I watched my effective wage go down in the 6 years I worked there. It's not funny either.
Effective wage, I think is how much you make above minimum.....minimum wage is a barometer for inflation.
If minimum wage goes up to 15 bucks an hour?
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There are 50 states, and each one can set their own minimum wage rate.
Target is raising their pay rate to $15 per hour.
Why do companies pay more than the minimum wage? Simple....supply and demand for labor.
So right now today, you could work at Target for $15 per hour......but I don't see any drivers moving to Target, do you?
I don't care what New York does with their minimum wage, as I don't live there and I don't go there. It is expensive to live there and to go there, so I don't. -
However truck driving isn't considered a skilled trades job and should be. This is where the problem lies with wages within part of the industry. This is a $20 a hour starting wage job no matter what others think, not 12, not 15 but 20.
On the other hand unskilled labor getting $15 a hour would negatively impact the economy as a whole, unemployment would go up for a time, inflation will increase into double digits and the economy as fragile as it is may tank - so it is a stupid idea. On top of that, it is even more of an idiotic idea to even have a minimal wage, it was there to keep certain groups oppressed while controlling others, you can put that together yourself, it is too obvious. All of this when it was created in the 30's drove more people out of work than it helped for the exact reason I stated unemployment will increase. -
But even among fast food workers there is an elite core group who are good enough at their job that they deserve more. They tend to be minorities/felons/etc someone with something that restricts them from the job market somehow. Obviously there are a few competent people at the bottom of the social order and these are them. They tend to dig their way out... eventually. They work really hard for peanuts and make those restaurants run. The world would be a better place if all the other ####ty fast food workers went away and it was just those long term professional fast food workers who got the entire payroll bill paid to them. The people actually doing the work would be getting paid for it instead of being lumped in with some complete idiot who is working the drive through because they can't make hamburgers anywhere near fast enough.
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Ny stinks but moving is also expensive. I don't live in NYC either. I'm 450 miles away from that mess. I live in a small rural town in the state of my.
It's funny the government gives corporations money to open a new plant for example. Two dairy plants in batavia are a case in point. One has failed completely and sold twice..... the other hangs on by a thread and used minimum wage temp service help. Hardly what I call successful. These are both brand new state of the art dairy production facilities, one hangs by a thread..... the other failed twice completely. I have dairy exp and the plant that remains open wanted to.pay me minimum wage. Bite me.
Yet another big project on the old bethlehem steel site, solar city has been the receipt of many government handouts and this far has not created many jobs at all. When ground was broken and the money was given they touted thousands of jobs. We are lucky if there is more then 50 people working there. -
Minimum in New York is 9.70 set to increase again in december....i think the new amount is 10.50
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