Union goons like SEIU are the only people that really benefit from this stuff.
They have contracts that tie their wage to the minimum wage.
Minimum wage goes up and your $35 an hour union wage goes up.
Everybody else gets screwed.
Especially people on fixed incomes.
Exactly. Washington State tied it’s minimum wage to inflation after unions pushed through a ballot initiative. Now the unions get a COL raise each year without having to negotiate for it. Minimum wage is now $ 9.15.
For the unions, it’s not about getting them any kind of raise. It’s the union dues. For example, with 1.4 million Walmart workers, assuming they were all fulltime and paying just a nickel an hour, the union representing them would earn about $140 million dollars per year. If the union were to represent all service workers across the country, we would be talking about billions in union dues.
Of course, we know the service workers being represented would be paying more than a nickel per hour.