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Title: McDonald's response to the $15 dollar an hour minimum wage
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Published: May 28, 2015
Author: Interwebs
Post Date: 2015-05-28 09:46:33 by Jethro Tull
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#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
I have asked this question many times from those that decry unions, minimum wages etc etc... If union and wage laws were repealed, would the hourly rate go up, remain the same or go down????
If wage laws were repealed some would be paid more than others related to their skill and dependency, among other things.
If that were true, would it not also apply now? That current employers would pay some employees more, or is it most likely they pay only what the law requires? Having been child labor in the great depression, employers never, ever, paid for dependent or skilled help. Never happened. They could hire four children for twenty five cents each for ten to twelve hours labor, or hire a man for a dollar. We know who they hired. There is no milk of human kindness in employers, that will never happen.
They could hire four children for twenty five cents each for ten to twelve hours labor, or hire a man for a dollar. We know who they hired. There is no milk of human kindness in employers, that will never happen. Since there aren't unions for every category of work, it seems that only certain employers would be egregiously unfair like the lucrative coal mining industry, for example -- lucrative, as well, for the union industry that shields those employers from being bothered about any worker wage increases for years at a stretch until the next scheduled union negotiations.
We could revert to the good olde days, "laborers" had no rights, no recourse, had nothing. How dare they? Example... My wife was taken at age twelve from an orphanage, by a judge, given to a school teacher for free labor, for six long years. That was during the great depression, humans were given away, no rights, nothing. Not so long ago, we had slave labor in this country, then we went to child labor, now some would revert back in time.
Employers who only pay the bare minimum, will only have the bare-minimum type employees. Locally, I can see the difference in my Costco and SamsClub stores; night and day. Costco is one of the highest rated places to work, while Walmart is one of the most despised employers in the world.
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#3. To: Cynicom (#2)
If union and wage laws were repealed, would the hourly rate go up, remain the same or go down????
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
If wage laws were repealed some would be paid more than others related to their skill and dependency, among other things.
#7. To: Cynicom (#5)
Having been child labor in the great depression, employers never, ever, paid for dependent or skilled help. Never happened.
#8. To: GreyLmist (#7)
#11. To: Cynicom, 4 (#8)
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