Locally, that bill has the support of Steve Samuelson, Mike Schlossberg, Dan McNeill, Peter Schweyer and Bob Freeman. It appears to have no support among Republicans.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Saucon Source: Giant to Start Paying $9/Hr
Locally, that bill has the support of Steve Samuelson, Mike Schlossberg, Dan McNeill, Peter Schweyer and Bob Freeman. It appears to have no support among Republicans.
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A major step out of the new dark ages and into a more equitable and decent economic future. Hopefully the "know nothing party",will not see this as another sign of the apocalypse.
ReplyDeleteso now we get to pay more for goods and services. Fuck the poor, next thing you know they'll want to unionize. You dems will do anything to buy a vote.
ReplyDeleteSo Giant raised its wage without government coercion or collective bargaining? Imagine that.
ReplyDeleteThe other side of the coin is the number of self checkout lines. Each one eliminates a cashier. Wegman's just installed a bunch of them.
What were buggy whip makers being paid at the dawn of the horseless carriage? Did they eventually go to work for Henry Ford?
BTW, exactly how much is a living wage? Is it $10.50? Is it $15.00? Is it $20? What is the number?
Take a look around you and you will see that modern day technology is taking away minimum wage jobs. Robotics now does the welding in auto manufacturing plants, computers have basically eliminated the typewriters and with it the stenographers and typists as we knew them, auto mechanics and repairs done by computers, television repair and telephone repair are a thing of the past. E-mail replacing the postal workers. The list goes on and on. Big business ships your manufacturing jobs overseas because their bottom line is profit. They don't give a shit about you and I. They care about the almighty buck. The middle class is shrinking in a hurry and nothing will be left except the wealthy and the poor. Laws have to be changed so the big corporations pay a price for their disloyalty to the American worker just like the foreign countries do to discourage our exports to them. Capitalistic American Greed. All around us, technology is eating up the little mans jobs. They need help. Not everyone is born with a big I.Q. and not everyone is born physically fit to handle hard manual labor. SOOOOOO legislate. It's the only answer left to dealing with big business that has abandoned we the working class.
ReplyDeleteHow much do big DNC donors Apple and Google pay those little kid slaves in China? I hope nobody commenting here is using either the iOS or Android platforms. Is Blogger a Google product?
ReplyDeleteOh those zany Repubs. All talk and no action on income inequality. Thats the only thing they can criticize in Obama's economy and they still oppose any real change. Oh sorry, cut taxes and incomes will go up. Everyone knows that. (Sarcasm)
ReplyDeleteAll those jobs that are supposedly being lost to technological advances are being replaced by better jobs in technology. I certainly don't advocate keeping typists for no reason. Also, there will always be a need for stenographers.
ReplyDeleteHillary is the champion on this issue.
ReplyDeleteWhen Bill and she left the White House, they were poor. So poor, in fact, they had trouble purchasing their homeS in NYC and West Chester County.
Hillary knows the plight of the poor. She paid he female staffers 72 cents on the dollar and knows what a double standard looks like.
Run, Hillary. Please God run.
Here is a link to the living wage calculator.. http://livingwage.mit.edu/
ReplyDeleteHow is making a decent living so you can survive a political issue? How is having an equitable society in which we encourage stability and have a concern for the well-being of our fellow countrymen a political issue? The visceral hatred you project is sad. Where did you learn to hate so much?
ReplyDeleteIs this Jungleland or a civilized country? I swear I have no idea what some of you are drinking.
Agree. Let's legalize 20 million more slave laborers for the US Chamber of Commerce while there are 93 million costly, adult Americans not working.
ReplyDeleteis there anyone in these comments who disagrees with this statement - if you raise the price of something, less of it will be demanded. Whether you like it or not, it is true for labor.
ReplyDeleteAutomation is replacing minimum wgae labor PRECISLEY because the government is mandating an increase. It's pure economic analysis,like each of you, liberal and conserfvative, do every day in your lives.
4:49-yeah because "automation" is such a new concept. This revolutionary idea of automation has nothing to do with technology and is totally a government created concept! You are a true genius! Lol
ReplyDeleteGod forbid Giant lets some of those record profits trickle down to their employees.
ReplyDeletethey need to do something n,, consumer rated them worst supermarket chain and most recalls plus dirty stores
ReplyDelete8:13 thank you for your brilliant analysis.
ReplyDeleteI guess government mandates for higher wages do not drive employers to automate. Is that what you are saying?
8:40-You could possibly make that case if automation was a brand new concept but advancements and the use of automation have been taking place for decades. Believe me if the technology for self-checkout existed in the 40's companies would have utilized it. Automation increases the profit margin which is the only concern of the company.
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