Posted on 03/05/2015 10:06:09 AM PST by Olog-hai
Mayor Bill de Blasio, promoting his message of income equality and empowering the less fortunate, pressed influential New York City business leaders on Thursday to raise their workers’ starting pay to $13 an hour.
The liberal mayor made his call in front of a group that broadly supported his predecessor, billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg, and at times had been skeptical of de Blasio’s agenda: a gathering of the well-heeled and powerful known as The Association for a Better New York.
“I want to call on you, the business leaders gathered in this room, to do your part,” the mayor, a Democrat, said. “I need you, we all need you, to take responsibility for providing the great people in this city with the opportunities, the better wages, the chances for advancement that they need and deserve.” …
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You first, mayor.
Business leaders to Mayor: we move our business else where out of this crap hole.
So sinking your life savings and spending every waking moment trying to help your business survive isn't enough anymore.
With liberals like him, nothing is ever enough.
Business owners to Mayor “GFY!”
Why don’t these idiots go and open up their own business, and start the workers out at $17 an hour? I’d love to see how it works out for them.
Wouldn’t an easier way to promote income equality be to require Goldman Sachs to drop their starting pay to graduating Ivy Leaguers to $13 per hour?
Go p!$$ up a rope.
This clown has never even operated a lemonade stand. When you get real business experience, you can talk.
“Community Organizers” and career politicians only know how to spend other people’s money.
Among many OTHER things, THAT certainly will shove NY off the list of summer vacation destinations that travelers may be considering!
so raising peoples pay $4 pre-tax an hour will somehow empower the less fortunate??
Does anyone in NYC actually work for min. wage? A hotdog costs 5 bucks.
I wish they’d quit sending so many people to Texas.
These business owners up there should have seen this coming years ago when Limbaugh bailed and set up in Palm Beach. I hope DiBlousio turns this shithole on the Hudson into a wasteland.
Payback’s a bitch!
You first mayor!!! Please act in such a way to run the city in such an exemplary way as to show ‘businesses’ how to control costs and spending to make enough money to open the next day. Please don’t be so laughable and appear so stupid with your remarks. You sound as if you are parasitic community organizer - not a leader. Seems we have to many of this type in leadership roles. Elections do have consequences.
In the exposé ‘Poor Kids of Silicon Valley,’ a CNN reporter seems shocked to uncover a high level of child poverty in the affluent Bay Area. CNN concludes that after consulting with “economists and experts,” they learned that a minimum wage hike to $10.10 would significantly help end child poverty. But if CNN actually talked to the most impoverished families, they would have learned that raising minimum wage, the way Oakland just did, results in maximizing single young mothers and their children living in poverty.
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The Labor Center and their union allies convinced San Francisco in 2003 to pioneer the first city-based minimum wage. The San Francisco adopted a local minimum wage of $8.50 an hour, versus the state’s $6.75 per hour. The UC research group claimed the 26% increase help the poor with virtually no loss of employment or hours worked.
The 2003 minimum wage hike was supposed to have an immediately positive impact on the down-trodden food service workers. But the existing average wage in the city's highly-respected restaurant industry was $353 a week for 36.4 hours worked, for an average hourly wage of $9.70. While already making more than 43 percent above the $6.75 minimum wage, the restaurant industry should have been insulated from the wage change.
I'm sure there are minimum wage jobs but the problem with relying on a minimum wage, low skill job is that they're the easiest jobs to replace with evolving technology.
(Technology that doesn't take breaks, doesn't call in sick, doesn't go on strike, doesn't require Obamacare and works for less than the minimum wage.)
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