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2016-03-28 Government

Deal struck to raise California minimum wage to $15

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Posted by Fred 2016-03-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 GOONIONS will make it too expensive to live and work there.

$8 cheeseburgers

Posted by newc 2016-03-28 00:43|| 2016-03-28 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 In cali, anything less than $25 / hr is "no visible means of support."

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-03-28 00:48|| 2016-03-28 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Governor, lawmakers and labor unions

I'm guessing these are the people who had trouble with algebra.

Snark of the day.

Posted by SteveS 2016-03-28 00:56|| 2016-03-28 00:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Pretty soon, hamburgers are going to start to flip themselves after all.

Posted by gorb 2016-03-28 01:07|| 2016-03-28 01:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Notice how no businesspeople were involved?

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-03-28 01:28|| 2016-03-28 01:28|| Front Page Top

#6 California used to be a favoured destination. The shining jewel. Now it looks nothing like that. Thanks my liberal progressive fiends.

Posted by Mikey Hunt 2016-03-28 01:42|| 2016-03-28 01:42|| Front Page Top

#7 This is scandalous. Why would unions fight for a legislated minimum wage when their reason for existence is to increase the wages of their members? They are making themselves obsolete.

The reason is that union members are exempt from the minimum wage. Thus unions are working to decrease the wages of their members.

Alice in Wonderland stuff.

Posted by phil_b 2016-03-28 03:35|| 2016-03-28 03:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Why would unions fight for a legislated minimum wage when their reason for existence is to increase the wages of their members? They are making themselves obsolete

No more than K Street. Law is power. Better to directly control the law than engage in negotiating a thousand separate contracts. Besides, they don't object to adding several million illegals to the fold which while depressing wages overall, means the leadership keeps the gravy train running to their jobs and pensions. So, they make sure that an artificial floor is created with minimum wage to cover the damage. Which means, that business that can, move to other states or find alternate means to substitute for labor.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-28 08:10|| 2016-03-28 08:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Phil, IIRC, union wages are tied to to the minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, so do union wages.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2016-03-28 08:13|| 2016-03-28 08:13|| Front Page Top

#10 And so, it begins ...

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-03-28 09:20|| 2016-03-28 09:20|| Front Page Top

#11 California wants the poor people out. After all, they consume the most resources and pay the least taxes. Poor people disproportionately take minimum wage jobs. This change effectively eliminates those jobs. Result is they have to leave the state with their jobs or give up and go on full time public assistance, in which case the state owns them. This is the hard and fast reality of late stage socialist realpolitik.

Posted by Iblis 2016-03-28 10:15|| 2016-03-28 10:15|| Front Page Top

#12 So will illegal gardeners and nannies get $15 an hour?

Posted by Bobby 2016-03-28 11:04|| 2016-03-28 11:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Illegals are already violating federal law by being here and working. Why should they be concerned with breaking a state law?

Posted by Rambler in Viginia 2016-03-28 11:16|| 2016-03-28 11:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Steve Jobs told Baraq that all those jobs assembling iPhones would never return after they went to China. Now you know why.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-03-28 11:40|| 2016-03-28 11:40|| Front Page Top

#15 The illegals breaking the employment law are hardly the problems.

The ones that break the law with impunity are Leo and Kim and all the employers of said nannies and gardeners.

Posted by AlanC 2016-03-28 12:35|| 2016-03-28 12:35|| Front Page Top

#16 And now the elite will get to break the law twice - Once for the employment and once for the underpayment. So they'll go to jail twice as long.

But 2x=0. Solve for x, the jail term.

Posted by Bobby 2016-03-28 13:07|| 2016-03-28 13:07|| Front Page Top

#17 "Why would unions fight for a legislated minimum wage when their reason for existence is to increase the wages of their members? They are making themselves obsolete.
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In some states, the Union bosses raise is tied to the wage increase.

Posted by newc 2016-03-28 14:11|| 2016-03-28 14:11|| Front Page Top

#18 wow, and during an election year. this is my shocked face<<<<

Posted by BrerRabbit 2016-03-28 19:48|| 2016-03-28 19:48|| Front Page Top

#19 We should make it simple. Deport all the illegals. Execute those hiring them for slavery. It'll wipe out most of the democrats for sure.

Posted by Silentbrick 2016-03-28 23:05|| 2016-03-28 23:05|| Front Page Top

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