Full Service Workers Alliance co-founder Simone Barron discusses the threat minimum wage increases poses to jobs in the food service industry.
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You get what you pay for until you put the
bill on the other guy and he closes up shop.
And some people think that politics don’t matter!
Reality bites.
izlamo delenda est …
Let them eat their pay increase.
The restaurant industry needs to start looking into more use of robots.
People work for dollars and gripe about it, but robots happily work for a few electrons.
The union decided there were too many eating establishments. The demand should have been for $100.00 per hour
Like obama aping (no pun intended) the end of America’s prosperity is here, this is all part of the fascist plan to impoverish the nonruling elite of us, then rule all of us, then kill the likes of us.
Seattle is a city of compliant fools, happy to jump into the pit of the hellish world Obama promoted.
But then, Trump waived a magic wand.
these leftwing idiots can never see the connection between their actions and the horrible consequences of their actions. TANSTAAFL
That woman is a liberal moron. She’s still looking to government for a solution.
Just sit in the dark at your public housing dive and eat recycled government tofu. Stupid hippies. Fast food worker and restaurant waitress are not intended to be careers. Stupid hippies. Maybe if you had a tech degree instead of a masters in Post-Gender Retrogressive Dadaism, you could actually get a real job. Stupid hippies.
Yep, it is a always a smart move to cause the price of a hamburger worth $1.00 dollar to now cost $10.00 dollars (through commie minimum wages) in order to satisfy the leftwing cretins!
@ mansfield lovell DECEMBER 17, 2019 AT 1:05 PM
Cloward Piven suggests otherwise.
Never concede good intentions to the progressive movement. It is never warranted. The progressive movement has been invested in increasing innocent human suffering, misery and death since it’s inception. The progressive movement supported the National Socialists as they rose in stature and consolidated their power throughout the 1930’s and they supported every genocidal regime that came along during the last century. Read their own periodical literature and it is documented in their own words who they supported. A movement cannot be that wrong, for that long, about what their prescription for humanity will yield w/o a thorough examination of what evidence suggests their policies are more likely than not to result in.
Where do their policies lead when implemented? To a hell on earth. Increased innocent human suffering, misery and death and not by a small measure.
I had a job hauling golf sacks during the day and parked cars at night at a country club.
The base rate for sack hauling was $15 per 18 holes. I carried 2 sacks, for $30 for 4 hours. $7.50/hr. The average tip of $15 per sack doubled my rate to $15/hr.
Then valet parking. My hourly rate was $4/hr. With tips on a busy night that would easily go up to $30 to $50 per hour.
If those base rates were hiked to a “livable wage” I can say with 100% certainty my total income would have been far less. There were “favorites” at the country club, the people who liked me and often tipped MUCH more than they needed to. Tips made me go the “extra mile” to ensure I got the best tip possible at all times.
Raise the base rate and eliminate tips so the progressives have equal outcome for a shitty or well done job and EVERYONE suffers the same as whoever does the worst possible job. It’s common sense, basic economics, and that’s why progs are against it.
Now that folks are out of a job, they are finally realizing that minimum wage is actually $0.00/hour.
A long time ago, before leftists ruined it, Portland was a cool place to visit.
If minimum wage isn’t a living wage, how do immigration criminals being paid less under the table send so much money back home? Because they know how to budget
@BrassG: are you SURE it’s ‘government tofu’?
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
Tax&spend shitheads in government don’t like tips. They’re afraid of wages hidden in tips and want to be able to fully tax every stinkin’ penny
I answered one of those comments we’re seeing on IOTW lately and now make $130.00 an hour. Do I get a raise as well? WOOHOO!
Simone, the solution to this is to vote Republican. Of course you will never do that so sorry, not sorry.
We tell ’em, & we tell ’em – and we tell ’em, AND we tell ’em… & they NEVER listen, NEVER believe it, and NEVER learn. 🙄
🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 ’em!!!!
Ha! Piss off!
Anything more than a one person shop is doomed to die!