Can this be a great thing moving forward?

Do you not get that will drive up inflation?

Do you think McDonald’s is actually going to eat that cost of paying more? #### no, it will raise prices instead.

It’s not like min wage magically increases to 15 an hour, still not a livable wage here... and nothing else happens.

 

It doesn’t work that way, sounds good in theory but not in practice. $15 an hour now if made the minimum would have exactly the same buying power as $8 does now, then they would want $25. Minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage. If after a little while in the work force you’re still making minimum wage the problem is you.

 

Or they can read a book learn a skill then get a better job, not one intended for 16 year olds.

 

here is one of the biggest problems with minimum wage hikes, it insults everyone else....people that work hard and/or have skills in order to make themselves worth more money. right now in ny state the minimum wage is $10.40, or $416 per week on 40 hours..... in december it will increase yet again to $11.10 or $440 per week on 40, it will continue to increase until it reaches $15 (it has already been stupidly approved).

i currently make $1020 on a typical week driving class A milk tanker. i work more like 50 hours. NOT hourly pay either, so no overtime

$15x40=$600.....$15x1.5=$22.50............$22.50x10=$225......$600+$225=$825

$825 per week working some unskilled factory job if you work 50 hours per week, 10 of which are overtime.

i had to get a CDL, i had to learn a skill, i have to take risks on the road on a daily basis; i have to drive in bad and dangerous weather, i have to deal with dumb 4 wheelers and the dangers they present. these people have no skills, take no risks and yet want almost the same money for "would you like fries with that".

if i dont get a significant raise in the next few years, is it still worth doing my job? who is going to haul the milk that is used to make food products? who is going to haul the blacktop and stone for construction projects, who is going to haul general freight?

at current wages its $516 per week at $10.40 with 10 hours of overtime.

my earnings would loose almost $300 worth of realistic buying power if i did not receive a raise. why should i accept taking a paycut so someone who put literally no effort into life get an elevated standard of living. such a pay increase is fictitious anyways because it's just going to cost more to live...


prices are already starting to reflect the increases thus far. a simple burger king meal is already $11. $11, absurd really.

chances are strong that people currently making above minimum wage are NOT going to see increases. so in effect they become minimum or sub minimum wage earners.

i can see the news now, driver shortage grows; except this time its actually a real shortage and not fiction created by the megas in order to lower wages further.

 

That's my whole point. $15 an hour is still not a livable wage, that's college kid money. That wahe would not hurt your big corporations. I was making $12 an HR in college and that barely got me through. There are jobs people get o school and get skills for and still get paid around that much. I remember a diesel mechanic at Love's telling me he gets paid $17 an hour plus commission but the commission is only if he do repairs outside of tires......for real? A trade in demand like this? A corporation as wealthy as Love's? He left TA because they were paying him less. That's just shameful to me.

 

Looked into being a mechanic. The money is in being paid by the job not by the hour. You have to be good and work hard, but get on with a busy shop and you're set.

Suppose its like anything else, get the experience and get paid more.

 

Minimum wage is not and never was supposed to be a living wage. And it has nothing to do with what a corporation can afford.

 

i agree 100%, your not supposed to be able to feed a family on minimum wage. minimum wage always has been and should remain 1. a starter job for kids 2. a job for retirees that worked a real job in their life but just want supplemental income to offset social security, or just something to get them out of the house and keep active.

the liberal nonsense that minimum wage needs to be a living wage is just liberal B.S.

think, if all jobs paid around $15 why do something better? what reason would i have to drive a milk truck? i do it better myself and my family, but if i only end up making a hair over minimum why do it.

wages should in part be based upon the value it adds to society. a fast food worker just makes america fatter.

 

If $15 is good why not $30?

 

That is a fact. Way back I used to run a full serve car wash. We had 25-30 employees. When the minimum wage would go up 25 cents we would raise the price for a full serve wash by 50 cents. If we didn't the extra cost of labor would kill us.