city of SeaTac, WA passes $15/hr minimum wage. (employment, fast food, interview)
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SeaTac is a small suburb south of Seattle where Seattle's main airport is found. Yesterday voters approved a ballot measure enacting a $15 per hour minimum wage. Washington state already has the highest minimum wage in the U.S. (9.19/hr).
I listened to an interview of a sandwich shop owner at the airport. He said that his labor costs were going to increase by about $90,000 per year, and he has no idea where that money will come from. He expects that the Port of Seattle, which runs the airport and regulates his pricing, will have to agree to some price hikes. Right now he is required by the Port to charge prices no more than other similar businesses in the region.
I expect that some of the fast food places in SeaTac will just go away. The ones that remain will hire and keep only the most experienced and most productive workers. Teenagers, recent immigrants, people just out of prison, etc. need not apply. In effect they just tore a bunch of rungs off of the bottom of the career ladder in SeaTac, WA.
Good for Sea-Tac. I am sure we will see small increases in prices at the airport, but at least the employees will be making a better living wage than they were before.
Good for Sea-Tac. I am sure we will see small increases in prices at the airport, but at least the employees will be making a better living wage than they were before.
Perhaps if that was the only cost it might be small but anyone in that area making $15 now is going to want more and you can't blame them. Driving up the pay for every one else is just one of the cascading affects of the minimum wage.
Perhaps if that was the only cost it might be small but anyone in that area making $15 now is going to want more and you can't blame them. Driving up the pay for every one else is just one of the cascading affects of the minimum wage.
You do realize the town of Sea-Tac is basically an airport with a few neighborhoods around it. The people who will see the benefit of this almost all work at the airport.
Good for Sea-Tac. I am sure we will see small increases in prices at the airport, but at least the employees will be making a better living wage than they were before.
Yeah, great! Now let's expand the program to $40 per hour, and mandate it all across this great land. "At least the employees will be making a better living wage than they were before." Hahaha....riiiight.
Yeah, great! Now let's expand the program to $40 per hour, and mandate it all across this great land. "At least the employees will be making a better living wage than they were before." Hahaha....riiiight.
Why? I guess if you are gonna run to the idiotic extreme, I could combat it by saying we should end all minimum wages and allow business owners to own employees like property.
Why? I guess if you are gonna run to the idiotic extreme, I could combat it by saying we should end all minimum wages and allow business owners to own employees like property.
ummm, an employee's ultimate protection is ownership of his or her abilities, and the ability to sell his or her time on mutually agreeable terms to any employer of his or her choosing. The primary effect of minimum wage laws is to criminalize the sale of low-skill labor for its market value, thereby impoverishing the low-skilled by denying them employment.
So the business owners pricing is regulated by the Port of Seattle and their labor costs just increased substantially - and liberals are cheering this on? Wow, talk about crazy. That's a way to put people out of business pretty quickly.
ummm, an employee's ultimate protection is ownership of his or her abilities, and the ability to sell his or her time on mutually agreeable terms to any employer of his or her choosing. The primary effect of minimum wage laws is to criminalize the sale of low-skill labor for its market value, thereby impoverishing the low-skilled by denying them employment.
So low skill workers should be excited to work for a nickel an hour.
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