Posted on 06/03/2014 5:15:34 AM PDT by lowbridge
Last January, SeaTac implemented a $15 per hour minimum wage for hospitality and transportation workers. The consequences to the drastic hike in wages are just beginning to be realized—and it’s not pretty.
A writer for NW Asian Weekly recently blogged about her experience attending an event at a SeaTac hotel. She asked employees if they were “happy with the $15 wage.” The ensuingconversations,
“It sounds good, but it’s not good,” the woman said.
“Why?” I asked.
“I lost my 401k, health insurance, paid holiday, and vacation,” she responded. “No more free food,” she added.
“The hotel used to feed her. Now, she has to bring her own food. Also, no overtime, she said. She used to work extra hours and received overtime pay.
“What else? I asked.
“I have to pay for parking,” she said.
“I then asked the part-time waitress, who was part of the catering staff.
“Yes, I’ve got $15 an hour, but all my tips are now much less,” she said. Before the new wage law was implemented, her hourly wage was $7. But her tips added to more than $15 an hour. Yes, she used to receive free food and parking. Now, she has to bring her own food and pay for parking.”
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Say it ain’t so! Do you mean you can’t legislate utopia? But Santa Claus is real, right?
Balls, it’s balls they don’t have, castration must be part of the MSNBC contract, if they ever had any balls to begin with.
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch!
That book completely changed the way I understood economics. Mind changing.
The ‘Progressive’ war on excellence.
or
The ‘Progressive’ war on success.
I took econ in HS and college. Thought I understood it to the extent that I needed to.
Sowell can be a bit repetitive, but this book was great.
Where you can learn the “hows” by taking courses,
this book teaches the “whys”, and you can then easily derive the “hows” and the “what will happen ifs”.
Boo hoo, hoo. Bet she voted for 0 bummer as well. My give a flip meter is broken.
This story reminds me of when the Teamsters unionized my Dad’s warehouse in the 1960’s in Chicago. For a seventy-five cent per hour raise enough of the workers voted to join the union. My Dad stopped feeding the workers lunch yes there was a cafeteria but it became off limits to the union workers they had to bring there lunch and eat in the warehouse. He stopped furnishing uniforms but still expected them in clean pressed uniforms which they now had to buy and keep laundered on their own. And the best one of all they were no longer eligible for the profit sharing plan which cost most of the workers between $2,000 and $3,000 per year. When you added the union dues on top of all the lost benefits they were taking home far less than when they joined the union.
Oh and I was working alongside them my Dad cut a deal with the union that I didn’t have to join so I still got the increase in pay and didn’t have to pay the union dues.
Leftist mantra: It’s not the results, it’s the intentions. “But, we meant well.”
Just think of the millions of poor folk, generational welfare recipients and new immigrants who will now flock to the SeaTac area, knowing they can now find good-paying jobs with a living wage.
What? It won't work that way?
In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz, “Ha Ha!”
That is the exact mentality of the democrats in my family. All are financially screwed (living way beyond their means) and expected me and my husband to bail them out. At first, we loaned them money but, then they refused to pay us back, saying that since we had the money, we should just give it to them.
I haven’t had contact with any of them since then, going on 7 years. They always resented our hard earned successes and took every chance to make snide remarks about us. Sad for them, but my life is so much better without them.
It’s a good idea, raise their minimum, cancel all perks, and make sure they no longer qualify for food stamps, subsidies, or other govt handouts.
As God is my witness, I had no idea that my wife was a FReeper. That is you isn't it Honey? BTW, when did you move to Georgia?
That’s unexpected. Who would have guessed that ignoring the laws of economics would have consequences?
“The hotel used to feed her. Now, she has to bring her own food.”
Wait what? You mean you might have to provide food for yourself if you make $15 an hour? Oh the horror!!!!!!!
Ha ha.
Tipped employees get hurt the most.
I used to wait tables in college and I made way over $15/hour (and this was some time ago so in inflation adjusted dollars I probably made the equivalent of $30/hour on weekend much more than that). Plus I got a free meal, 2 free meals if I worked over 8 hours. Plus I got to take home leftover food from the kitchen (I had a deal with the cook) which fed my roommates. Free steak, ribs, baked potatoes, deserts. It was quite a deal.
I made more waiting tables than my first salaried job out of college!
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