Dozen of workplace burn by the workers -> even shithead thinks to raise wages
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Introduce a bill for Socialized Healthcare too!!!
This is just for show and will end up going nowhere. If you think this has even a remote chance at changing the minimum wage then I have a bridge to sell you.
We live in a time where democrats do nothing but act appalled, corporations control politics, corporations keep getting bigger, consumer prices increase year after year, healthcare premiums constantly cost more and employee benefits keep getting more expensive every year. What gives you the idea corporations are going to let politicians triple minimum wage? If that happens it will have a ripple effect where higher paying job positions will want a raise because why should someone making an entry level wage be paid the same as a job position with a lot more responsibility?
most of them are gop that are not electable as a republican, so they become DINOS. schumer +13 other senators are likely the same, likewise with the house seats.
Not just that but if it passed it would eat into profits. We can’t have that, think of the shareholders
Profits are already eaten up by executive bonuses and salaries.
It’s regular salaries that eat into those, and that’s what they’re trying to protect.
How can anyone survive on ~$7.80/hr? That is modern day indentured slavery.
This may be for show but that’s more show than they were willing to show 2019-2021. Republicans were throwing out certain to fail bills constantly for at least the last 25 years. It at least throws people a marketing bone and also any that make it out of committee to a floor vote, it puts on record/something to market for/against an elected public servant. Republicans effectively steer public opinion against their own to their advantage for getting stuff passed and who they want into office. Democrats do not.
It’s one way to craft a publicly recognizable party ideology that the democratic party has failed to build up these last few decades. The we’re not republicans, we looks and sound more professional doesn’t work. Something like this is a major improvement. If it makes it to the floor for a vote, which democrats and republicans will vote against or abstain. We should want that for potential future primary challengers and be encouraging these
its performative, the gop isnt on board with this and likely they will block it. dnc has alot of bad publicity recently, israel/gaza, inaction trump, plus ending shut downs early,etc.
THE gop has largely convinced thier own base that higher wages =higher prices.
they get more good publicity by raising the MEDICAID/care income cap, where you have a max income on which you can receive " recieve free healthcare" or reapplying the covid-area susidies to the ACA.
It should be at least $20/hr
in HCOL states is around that or slightly more or ready. it wont get passed because the gop isnt going to allow it since none of them support it.
The bill is for $25. No way it’ll actually happen tho even though we desperately need it
yeah, this bill has the same chance of passing as it snowing in hell.
I can see it happening… After Trump’s next Fed pick causes super inflation to bring down the debt.
I’m far more interested in a wage cap. Top level earner can’t earn more than 10x the lowest level earner in the company. And a it doesn’t matter the amount the wage is, if it isn’t also tied to inflation as we’ll be back fighting this fight again in short order if it isn’t. That of course is take all of this at face value, and pretending it’s not just theater.
Though overall I would still prefer people rejecting the current business structures and making employee-owned businesses the new way. Go Pirate with the whole thing, everybody works for shares. Unions/Min. Wage are just compromises from realizing the true potential and pay of the working class.
there will never be a wage cap under this current neoliberal hellscape. the entire goal of both parties is to make money for their corporate interests
The real money is made on assets, not income
They just get non-salary benefits
That’s where the cap needs to be. There will always be someone capable and willing to take the job without the enormous pay packet. Executive pay is the biggest scam ever created.
No but you see if we don’t offer 2 million a year AT LEAST we won’t attract too talent!
It’s such a wild lie that for some reason we are all supposed to take seriously.
We all work at companies, the executives aren’t doing anything earth shattering. Most executives seem to be running the playbook of “give the customer less and charge them more to increase profits”. Wow, what innovation!
I would love for someone to be able to point out some concrete brilliant ideas that an executive actually had that went from “vague bullshit” to execution without getting worked and reworked and reworked by a bunch of normal employees until it was actually viable.
Steve Jobs made the iPhone, oh by himself, did he design the chips and write the software? Sure the vision is great, but for every iPhone there are a thousand CEOs that basically keep the lights on an already functioning company and raise the price. Oversee a rebrand. Go on the news and talk up their company.
And they’d have you believe that that’s worth 300-400x what a regular employee.
That every day they are coming in and providing more benefit than a worker does in an entire year. It’s the most obvious bullshit we’ve ever been asked to swallow
There is a value tied to the non-salary benefits. Include that in the cap.
Something something unrealized gains. I agree with you, I’m just pessimistic we’ll ever see anything remotely close to this.
I’m with you on that. It will not happen
I’m not an expert, but in that case, the company just splits into different sub-companies, no? The manufacturing arm would have a CEO paid in stocks and lower level workers still make nothing.
I wouldn’t even hold my breath for 1000x
the “the 1%” meme is really anti-class consciousness, rich workers are workers, this individual literally forgot investors exist
Can’t wait for this to not go anywhere and have several dems finger-wag for the next several years saying there’s nothing they can do
or get in power and immediately ignore it ala biden
Not nearly enough.
This is one of those ask for 100 so you can negotiate down to 50 kind of things isn’t it? Or just a pretend attempt to look good when it’s obviously rejected.
It’s a pretend attempt lol
No, it phases in over a few years.
You’re saying that as if it passed and will be going into effect. This will absolutely not pass if the 15 an hour that’s been attempted constantly over the last decade hasn’t.
Yes to both probably
And it’s still too low for anybody to live off of.
It would double my wages. Anything is better than nothing.
Or turn you unemployed if employment at new wage isn’t feasible.
Most of the past history of raising minimum wage/payroll taxes/employee benefits has been immediate outcry by business groups over how all business is going to go bankrupt/the sky is falling followed by change that a year later has business chugging along mostly the same as it was prior to their catastrophizing. It’s not really surprising that employees who are able to spend more, spend more.
Do you really think that wages are low because higher wages would make the businesses fail? Wages are low because businesses have no incentive to raise them in an employer’s market, that’s it. They make higher margins and keep the difference.
Both cases are possible. Wages may be low because of surplus of working force on the market (hence no incentives to rise wages) or can be result of extremely low margins at the given industry.
There can be tens of reasons why wages are poor, and rising minimum pay solves the issue only in some cases
Of course, there will be edge cases of industries that have not improved their margins over the years. But the fact that prices follow inflation, and wages do not, is enough information to generalise that businesses are just greedy as fuck.
Yes. This wont work without taxing rich properly
Democrats pretend to want to do the right thing when they’re not in power.
When they’re in power, we get more than enough no votes to sink it and tonedeaf celebration of the girlboss energy of Sinema’s thumbs down.
I’m only 26 and I’ve seen this happen at least 26 times
These same commenters will make fun of reddit and twitter for always being cynical and rage fueled.
Thank you! I was going crazy with every affordability discussion I heard only talking about cutting taxes and ways to lower costs here and there. Raising incomes fixes everything.
Most states have gone well beyond the federal wage so this would mainly just bring it to approximately the norm in most states.
$7.25 minimum wage still exist here in this state while across the river its more than $15
In my state its $15 but I haven’t seen a job in my town posted in the last 8+ years for under $21 because vhcol.
The general consensus is minimum wage is whatever the grocery store is hiring at (they have had a poster at the front door for 20 years now posting what theyre hiring at. Right now its $32/$35 for overnight restocking) - every buisness owner knows theyre not going going to get any applications if they can’t beat it.
Even tipped positions all pay $16+ so people can actually make rent.
Our local paper just did a story on this this morning. Only 44% of full time workers here make a living wage due to the low wages.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/living-wage-philadelphia-dayforce-work-20260429.html
Which should be a good starting place
