Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/17/long-beach-set-to-raise-hotel-worker-minimum-wage-to-23.html
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Hell yeah
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Believe me, this is a really good thing happening. But the downward pressure on wages over the last several decades sure is a real thing.
I was in the United Food and Commercial Workers union in the San Francisco Bay Area for 16 years and when I left, I was making 21/hour. In the year 2000…
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In Chicago the fact that there were two big restaurant companies worked to keep wages depressed. Between them they owned enough of the market that everyone could follow their lead.
When I got my last baking job in 2018 I was earning less in buying power than I was when I started in 1990.
This is great news for a workforce that often gets the short end of the stick.
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But if we raise minimum wages, all the businesses will go bankrupt, or leave in a huff, and there will be no commerce and the american economy will immediately grind to a halt, and we’ll all starve to death and have no where to vacation and no uberlyfts and and and…
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