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Doctor Foxx posted...

wolfy42 posted...

Menawhile I believe min wage was $6.25 an hour in ca. Who the HECK would go through all that time/money/work/effort if min wage suddenly jumped to $12.50 an hour, and electronic techs where now makign min wage as well?

That is happening right now, and while it will get better over time (the skilled labor jobs are going to eventually be forced to pay more), with our current job market it may take awhile.

People that don't want to work those retail/service jobs and want to think of potential in their future. Sometimes it's about what you want to do for work, what you want to learn, not just the wages. because as you said, wages will adjust for skilled labor. Those jobs will go back above minimum wage by a similar margin. It may take time, negotiation, or new employment.

We're in the process of the climb to $15 here, payroll is a little tight being a nonprofit. But many employers currently paying those minimum wage jobs are national or multinational companies with shareholders and profits. There is room there to adjust wages. Employees deserve living wages for selling their time and their labor.

It's true it will adjust, but the current job market is very very pro-employer, with huge lines of people applying for any job (trust me I have seen this personally recently, even for crap jobs nobody really wants).

This is really slowing down the process of increasing the pay for jobs that where not min wage (it's been half a year and none of them have gone up at all....I know thats short, but it's along time to the people doing those jobs).

I'm all for paying everyone at least $15....it's a start at least, but you need to increase all hourly positions at the same rate to be fair. If someone was making $11 an hour before, they should be going up till they eventually are making $18 or whatever the equivalent would be compared to min wage.

In my area we just did a huge $3 jump though, which is pretty insane. $3 doesn't seem like much but to people who were making $12/hr instead of $8......it's huge. Many min wage jobs offer incentives for instance to native English speakers, or if you work the graveyard shift etc. So someone working at a Taco Bell for their first job ever at night who speaks English may be getting $11.50 right away (and they give raises fairly quickly there), while someone working a job they had to train for 9 months to fill, spend a few thousand dollars getting certified, and have been working on the job for 4 years now.....is making 50 cents more an hour (oh and they have to commute 30 minutes to the company as well, as that is where they could get a job).

Fair? Nope, but reality right now for many.
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