Posted on 09/16/2019 6:47:25 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Personal-injury lawyer John Morgan has spent millions in a push to get a $15 per hour minimum wage measure on the ballot in Florida.
Amid concerns working class pay has not kept pace with costs of living, seven states and Washington, D.C., have voted to boost their minimum wages to $15 per hour.
John Morgan has gathered the 766,200 signatures needed to let voters decide whether to raise the wage next year. Now, the Orlando-based personal injury attorney waits on the state Supreme Court to decide if it appears on the ballot.
Morgan, who runs a firm employing more than 500 lawyers, has enjoyed ballot success in the past. He piled money into a successful 2016 ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana.
“And what makes me hurt the most is watching other people hurt,” Morgan said in a phone interview. “And I don’t think that politicians really give a f---, really give a f---, about other people hurting.”
Morgan argues current laws allow businesses to pay “slave wages.”
Key business groups in Florida have lined up against the initiative. Hotel and restaurant groups have warned the pay floor could lead to lost service jobs.
“The people they are trying to help we believe will get hurt with this particular ballot initiative,” said Carol Dover, president and CEO of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association.
She also raised the prospect of businesses passing costs on to customers and questioned how much consumers would tolerate.
Steve Schale, a Democratic strategist who ran former President Barack Obama’s 2008 Florida campaign, said, “People count out John Morgan at their own peril. He’s relentless and tireless,” he said.
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Well if you look at the employment rates for Washington state the rate is unchanged for the past year.
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They don’t realize they can vote for a raise but what will happen is they will be replaced with a machine or replaced with an illegal alien who will be paid under the table.
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Please, they believe themselves ‘too smart’ to have it effect THEM.
Unfort., we haven’t a SINGLE State that would tell ANYONE ‘The biz isn’t YOURS to dictate terms’, let alone govt itself acknowledging it’s exceeding their Constitutional constraints.
Instead of a sensible counter proposal of say $12.50/hr the GOP says no raise. This is why the GOP will always struggle.
AKA "Ambulance Chaser!" by the trade.
That’s ‘looking’ very selectively.
How does this ‘look’?
Seattle-based restaurant chain declares bankruptcy, cites high minimum wage
Restaurants Unlimited says high wage expenses for workers could not be offset by profits.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/restaurant-chain-blames-high-minimum-wage-for-bankruptcy
Businesses fail all the time for all kinds of reasons. But when Restaurants Unlimited filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, people noticed. The company owns 35 upscale restaurants located primarily on the West Coast, including seven in Seattle.
In its filing, it declared, “Over the last three years, the company’s profitability has been significantly impacted by progressive wage laws along the Pacific coast…the result was to increase the company’s annual wage expenses by an aggregate of $10.6 million.”
It went on to cite three examples where minimum wages have risen dramatically over the last three years. Portland now requires $12.50 an hour, an increase of 35 percent. San Francisco’s minimum wage has climbed 41 percent to $15.59 per hour. And Seattle, the first city with a $15 minimum wage, now forces large employers to pay at least $16 an hour.
Restaurants Unlimited, which is based in Seattle, did raise menu prices and even added a living wage surcharge to bills. But it still lost money.
“I think what Restaurants Unlimited found out is that they can’t pass along the full impact of that labor cost increase to customers through their prices, said Michael Saltsman of the Employment Policies Institute. “People can stay home, people can eat out less often.”
They don’t realize they can vote for a raise but what will happen is they will be replaced with a machine or replaced with an illegal alien who will be paid under the table.
Yep. Within a decade a McDonald’s will be run by a staff of 2-3 people. Aldi and Dollar stores do it. No reason fast food can’t either.
This is strictly a Dem GOTV campaign. Morgan did it with Christmas for Criminals and dope, too. It’s pretty much pointless since I see fast food places in Florida already advertising $12 per hour starting pay. All this $15 minimum wage nonsense will to is fast track robotization of retail and fast food.
Note to folks in FL who want to fight this: Come to Upstate NY with and drive through towns large and small.
Last year I drove through one town in Central PA. Main Street looked like nothing had changed since the 1970s. And not in a good way. Reminded me of my childhood.
You believe “Restaurants Unlimited” and not the actual data.
There is zero historical data backing up the assertions that increasing the minimum wage pushes up inflation and increases unemployment. None.
Would you prefer no wage? All these nonsense Dem GOTV campaigns will do is put robotization on the fast track. McDonald’s can easily get rid of 5 people per shift with automation. Soon you’ll have two people making $15 instead of 8 people making $10-$12 with an opportunity for advancement.
The minimum wage is always zero.
Robotics is not driven by the minimum wage. It’s happening now and the minimum wage is at a historic low.
In some kind of academic text book fantasy world.
If you don’t have a job, your wage is zero, that’s no fantasy.
It’s ok to be against the minimum wage but don’t use unemployment and inflation as reasons to be against the minimum wage. Those two reason are not valid and the looking at the raw data quickly dispels those reasons.
In my opinion, you are correct. And you ain’t seen the half of it. Pray for a miracle.
The drunken, foul mouthed sot!
They do not think that far ahead.
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