15 dollars a hour?

[CourierDriver]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/.../?intcmp=hplnws the saga continues....I know in Tennessee , there is no minimum wage set by law, so many are paid $7.25 an hour, at least they pay that at places like AutoZone, Napa and so on where I live. Usually the delivery drivers make this.. I bet this will be deleted if this gets decided as political..I just thought it would come under business stuff.

 

[cat843]

People need to be paid a living wage. So if they work 40 hours a week they can afford a place to live, eat decent meals and obtain medical insurance/care. Without food stamps or a food pantry or welfare.

 

[Ethan1]

I'm terrified of a $15/hr minimum wage. Right now, I make four times the minimum wage. That lets me support a family. If the minimum wage DOUBLES, inflation will be nightmarish. When every company has to pay that much money to every peon, every price has to go up. Then my salary will suddenly amount to peanuts.

The only way to prevent ridiculous inflation will be to replace all unskilled laborers with robots. Then we'll see how many burgerflippers and Amazon boxstuffers it takes to tear a hole in the "social safety net".

 

[fdcg27]

Originally Posted By: CourierDriver
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/.../?intcmp=hplnws the saga continues....I know in Tennessee , there is no minimum wage set by law, so many are paid $7.25 an hour, at least they pay that at places like AutoZone, Napa and so on where I live. Usually the delivery drivers make this.. I bet this will be deleted if this gets decided as political..I just thought it would come under business stuff.


A living wage for employees?
What a concept!
This is something all of us should support.
Ignore the comments from the nay-sayers who profit more from lower wages.
Most of us aren't unfortunate enough to rely upon a minimum wage job.
Let's pay that extra dime for a part to enable those lower on the food chain to make a decent living.

 

[clinebarger]

Forcing businesses to pay $15 an hour for unskilled Labor is not going to work! Most fast food places are franchises, Not multi million dollar operations. They will either have to raise prices on product or fold-up, I don't know where the myth came from that all business owners are rich???? I bet some owners, If you added up the hours they work, Don't make $15 an hour!

These unskilled/uneducated people are going to end up with No Job at all, I guess they think money falls out of the sky?

 

[SuperDave456]

$15 an hour?!?
That's what I'm making now at my current contract.
You can live off that?

Minimum wage was never intended to live off us.
At $15/hr you are going to see a lot of low skill and repetitive positions replaced by robotics.
The irony is a robot works 24/7 and has no healthcare, workers comp, or days off.
A robot always gets an order 100% right, and knows exactly when to order inventory.
Lots of people will be replaced.

And I agree with the aspect of inflation.
Not sure how one gets a roof replaced, a fence built, or a quick meal without low wage workers. And I say "low skill" loosely, as I have done all those jobs.

We should carefully observe what is going on in Seattle and other places with large increases in minimum wages before dedicating ourselves to this course of action.

 

[BigD1]

Somebody has to work the low paying jobs do they not? Then pay them a living wage.

 

[SuperDave456]

And BTW, both myself and my wife have struggled to make ends work since 2010.
Remember when working for a large international bank was a sure thing?

We put off having kids until we realized we'd never be financially secure.
Brought our baby boy home yesterday.

I'm serious about studying the economies of the cities that are raising the bottom of their income bracket.
The data I've read through shows how it's hurting the folks it's intended on helping.

Who said "the path to [censored] is paved with good intentions"?
That's how I feel. Good intentions, poor understanding of economics.
I applaude the good intentions.

 

[LubeLuke]

Why a 40hour week? 60 hours is reasonable and if they are at the bottom there is nothing wrong with working 70 hours a week to survive.

My average week is 60-70 hours of work. 12 hr days for 5 days = 60 and then Saturday if I feel like it.

 

[3311]

To many workers chasing to few jobs PERIOD! The U6 unemployment is still around 10% and we basically have open borders with low wage workers flooding the US. How does any reasonably informed person think they are goto go up unless artificially?

 

[BigD1]

It's not about hours worked. It's about being paid fairly for the hours one does work.

 

[Mr Nice]

SuperDave,

Just wondering what is your career field / work ?


Stagnant wages has been hurting jobs that can support a single person... let alone a family. Minimum wage is an entry level job for lower skill set. I think fast food restaurants operate on 5-7% profit margin. $15 an hour starting at any fast food joint will close the place down.

Where I work we start at $25-30 an hour but you need 2 year degree. $20 for internships then a bump depending on what role you do in the organization.

 

[BTW]

In 1985 I was in high school and making about $3.50/hr at the grocery store. In today's $, adjusted for inflation that would equal about $7.50/hr. I remember I got a summer job in 1987 making $7.00/hr, man, I was flush then. Of course I was 18, going to school, & living at home that summer...

The problem is that more people are taking jobs that are NOT MEANT to pay a living wage as their sole income. Not blaming them, that's just the facts. Mimimum wage is for low skill entry level jobs, not raising a family...

Also, higher minimum wage is not causal to high inflation.

 

[dareo]

One thing can be done to increase wage growth. Get rid of employer paid taxes of all kinds. A 10 dollar employee costs 11 to 12 dollars to employ. People need to stand up for themselves and find better pay too. Ive never once settled for min wage in my 15 yrs working.

Employees also need to create value in order to be paid more.

 

[mrsilv04]

Get ready for the $10 extra value meal at McDonalds.

 

[BigD1]

A job that's not meant to pay a living wage...are you serious? I just can't wrap my mind around that logic...sorry.

 

[DoubleWasp]

I'm not pushing my full support one way or another, but what good does it do to create a class of Morlocks? Some people just deserve to live as animals even though we can't live without them?

Th world learned to survive without slavery. I'm sure there could be a way to devise eliminating necessary services that deliver unsustainable wages.

Can the positions be eliminated? No. Ask GM and Fanfuc how that whole "lights off" robotic operation worked out. What happens when every fast food place has to have a robotics engineer come to service their restaurant? Who cleans everything?

So maybe they just need to get a better education and apply themselves more. Ok, so who to be the first one to get a college degree to make nothing on a manual labor job? Or should everyone just get educated and leave those jobs behind? Or do we make it worth their while and end up paying a bunch of money for an educated manual laborer anyway?

 

[LubeLuke]

Originally Posted By: mrsilv04
Get ready for the $10 extra value meal at McDonalds.


In Switzerland a Big Mac meal cost around CHF14. right now CHF is worth a couple percent more than your US Dollar......

 

[3800Series]

Goverments been wanting to raise minimum wage for years. Doesn't matter if they do or don't. In the end if they choose to everything will naturally go up in price and absorb all the new found income.

Really it makes no difference. I'll would be more willing to believe if it was to simply push many people off the welfare cliff.

 

[Al]

Why stop at $15 pay everyone a minimum of $25 then see how long it takes for Great DepressionII, I would explain the problem with a $15 minimum wage but those that don't get it will still not get it.

Heck...having all the workers paid equally worked in Communist coutries worked right?...wait it didn't bc it was never implemented.