stay home, throw a hamburger patty on the grill (where legal), make it yourself, it will even taste better.
>>Student workers protested this week and some say they’ll walk.
All part of the plan. More “jerbs that Murcans won’t do.”
Then do it. Go get a better job instead of all this crap
The State sez — “High costs for thee, but not for me! Die, peasants!”
I wonder if the libs ever considered how much harder it will be for the homeless folks to scrape together the scratch for a Big Mac.
So private business has to pony up, but the public sector “can’t afford the increase”, and is therefore exempt. Got it.
“But not everyone is celebrating a fatter paycheck. Public employers may not be bound by the $15 ordinance. Seattle’s biggest employer, with 39,000 employees, is the University of Washington. Officials say the money is not currently there to pay 2,600 student employees $11 an hour. They still are making the state minimum wage of $9.47.”
LOL. When tuition goes up to reflect a higher minimum wage will there be any complaints?
So he went down the street to The Rotten Oyster and hired on at $15.00/hour and was there for thirteen days. He was called in and dismissed, again for poor work ethic and calling in sick three of those days.
But he was optimistic. He said, "Places all over are paying $15.00 per hour so soon I will be in the middle class!"
> It also raised menu prices 21 percent. The famous Fish ‘n Chips will run you $20.60 and the Wild Alaska Halibut is now $43.50. The restaurant also wrote on the menu, “Tipping is no longer necessary…we have changed the way we pay our employees.”
I love it. Watch the employees bitch and moan about not being able to be tipped because they get paid $15 an hour now. I bet they end up making less per hour than if they just kept their mouths shut. They will learn a lesson about capitalism the hard way...
This will be GOOD FOR SOCIETY as it will encourage people to stay at home and fix their own meals, and be together with family and friends! I gotta thank them for that!
I hope they up the education level requirement to some college etc..
Maybe a degree in Math ???
Attention Homeless!!! — digging in the trash cans for hamburger butts is becoming more profitable.
The question that I haven’t seen asked, yet, is how will this raise affect other sectors?
I know that many UNION jobs are tied to the minimum wage. As it goes up their salary automatically goes up.
All future labor bargaining will be based on the $ 15.00 minimum wage so the asking salary will also go up.
What about various pension plans? The minimum wage increase will make them less “livable”. Also, how will this jump affect the cost of living adjustments?
Bottom line it just got much more expensive to live in Seattle.
As for the college student saying he would travel a few blocks for a $ 15.00 an hour job what makes him think that others will not travel a few blocks to save $ 5.00 - $ 15.00 for a meal or any other purchase?
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Fortunately, I-5 goes through Seattle, with no particular need for stopping.
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So now, those tips the waiters were getting will be a matter of record for the IRS.
Hahahahahahahaha!
Oh, wait until they do their taxes next year.
“Where’s my big refund? I’m in a higher tax bracket? So, the government is the real winner?”
Welcome to socialism, boys and girls.
Kshama Sawant, the $15 wage ordinance architect who is a Seattle City Councilwoman and a Socialist, said the University of Washington, in particular, has other ways of affording the raises.
“It is disingenuous for them to say they don’t have enough to pay $15 an hour,” said Sawant, “Why don’t they cut the salaries of the top executives and try to pay $15 and try to increase the wages for the lowest paid workers?”
Good point, Kshama! Don’t you love it when the left eats its own?
Since they have destroyed millions of jobs, this is the Rats plan to raise the standard of living. If you can get a job.
I have developed a new saying. It’s mostly just an addition to the old, “Don’t Shoot Yourself In The Foot!” Saying. The Liberals in Seattle made me think of it. Here it is.
Don’t Shoot Yourself In The Foot Especially When You’re Sitting In A Rowboat In The Middle Of Puget Sound!
Now, the socialist idiot would just shoot more holes in the rowboat to let the water out. We would then hope that she would have some real purpose in life as a snack for an Orca.
Long term outlook is Restaurants close and beef goes back to 1.49 a pound.