betsy Posted June 6, 2018 Report Posted June 6, 2018 (edited) Minimum wage gets hiked up to $15 per hour. What kind of jobs pay minimum wage? Like flippin' burgers......and fastfood cashiers.....or WalMart greeters? If you've invested in education, like as an ECE for example.......would you be happy to get the same pay-grade as a burger flipper? Of course not. Are teachers going to be happy to be along the same ball-park as an ECE? There'll be that ripple effect. We'll just have to get used to seeing more of this: Workers at some 60 daycare centres in Quebec begin 2-day strike https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/workers-at-some-60-daycare-centres-in-quebec-begin-2-day-strike-1.3890071 Ontario Teachers Strike https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/news/ontario-teachers-strike/ School bus drivers east of Toronto begin strike action http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bowmanville-school-bus-cancellation-1.4585585 If you've got a Premier like Horvath, who announced she'll never use the back-to-work legislation........what do you think will happen? Edited June 6, 2018 by betsy Quote
eyeball Posted June 7, 2018 Report Posted June 7, 2018 (edited) Typical how right wing workers quibble, and seethe with jealousy when comparing a few dollars difference in floor level pay grades yet when it comes to the often 300 - 500 fold difference between them and the executive penthouse..."we don't need no steekin' minimum wages, unions, economic fairness or justice and we especially don't need more brown people"! Edited June 7, 2018 by eyeball 1 Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.
H10 Posted June 8, 2018 Report Posted June 8, 2018 Its non-sense, you are whining about someone poor getting a $1 an hur but won't say nothing about the billionaires ripping you off and stealing your taxes by the thousands. Quote
betsy Posted June 8, 2018 Author Report Posted June 8, 2018 (edited) Still not getting it? I said before.....you can even raise the minimum wage to $30......but that won't do any good IF THERE ARE NO JOBS TO BE FOUND! You can gloat, "yeah, we raised our minimum wage to $15 an hour." BUT you're getting nowhere near anything if you don't have a job! Furthermore......raising it high could also hurt those who are already employed, when companies start laying off people, replacing them with high tech! Look what happened to a WalMart in Quebec years ago with their battle with the Union! Walmart closed shop! You think you've got big corporations by the nose???? Think again! And I say, that wage hike will cause a ripple effect. Everyone will end up wanting a pay hike! Those who normally get $15 per hour will now want more than that! Like the retail supervisor! The store manager will definitely want to have a hike too, if the supervisor gets it! Why shouldn't they? Especially when they have higher education and/or bigger responsibilities? It's all relative. The cost for everything will rise up. From fresh produce to luxury items! Apple pickers will get the wage hike - of course, cost for apples will go up! Doh! At the end of the day, your $15 gets you nothing except being back to square one! $15 per hour becomes just paper money - it's worth the same like what you've got before! Who ends up footing the cost? Consumers! Taxpayers! You'll be driving small business out of the picture! They won't survive! You'll end up with only the ones you hate the most - BIG CORPORATIONS! Edited June 8, 2018 by betsy Quote
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