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[Seatacus]

Those who want to raise the minimum wage to $7 and change why not raise it higher? What's wrong with $20 an hour?

 

[robbedagain]

Raising the minimum wage actually hurts businesses, and it hurts those who are working at a minimium age level because it reduces the number of jobs out there.

Ask any respected economist, its very simple math.

If you don't like your job or pay, get a better one and quit whining.

but yet these companies have absolutely no problem stealing the american hard working peoples dough while linging their own pockets :down:
And while Americans continue to pay heavy fuel prices, the big companies such as Exxon Mobile and Shell Royal Dutch are making 10 billion and beyond. That is why I said what I said earlier in thread. It may not get nothing done, but he!! at least it may wake up the republicans and may be they will look at these companies a little closer

 

[PITbull]

Did you folks know that the AFA MEC East voted to take their profit sharing portion and divide it with the West?

Yes. The MEC East voted in January. Jerry Glass once again conning the negotiating committee to share East sacrifices with West because the company is NOT giving one red cent to the West f/as in wages regardless of their section 6, which has been conveniently suspended by the mediators for company convenience.

Tell me that shouldn't be investigated. I would bet the Federal mediator is Jerry Glass's best buddy. I even know the damn guys name whose a pal of Jerry's.

The WEST should be picketing to FORCE section 6 talks which is due the WEST f/as. But instead, the company convinces EAST to split up the profit sharing portion with the WEST who did not have that in their contract. This is the only way the WEST will be compensated. (Just found this shittt out) And since Dougie has no plans to integrate/transition agreements, the EAST groups will be paying to compensate the WEST.

What a way to negotiate!

but yet these companies have absolutely no problem stealing the american hard working peoples dough while linging their own pockets :down:
And while Americans continue to pay heavy fuel prices, the big companies such as Exxon Mobile and Shell Royal Dutch are making 10 billion and beyond. That is why I said what I said earlier in thread. It may not get nothing done, but he!! at least it may wake up the republicans and may be they will look at these companies a little closer

Sorry, but the only way for the Republican Majority in both houses to "wake-up"; is to take them out!

I am not one for being all Republican or Democrat in both houses. I strongly believe that having a majority party in both houses creates a total imbalance of representation and slanted extreme idealogy.

wonder how they would react if all unions of all companies had aheullva a strike one day. That would have to be a crippling affect on the country i would imagine. May be that would force a change in the republicans. I think not!

The Republicans may interpret that as "terrorism" and envade a country of their choosing.

 

[awausairtech]

Actually, the minimum wage law is immoral.
The biggest problem with the minimum wage is this: If the government can set a minimum wage, what is to stop them from setting a maximum wage?

Look At What The BK JUDGE DID TO USAIR!!!
Government are setting the max wages!!!
We ALL ARE HOSED!!

 

[dxBrian]

here's a link to a Walter Williams column on the minimum wage, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterE...,_maximum_folly

Enjoy.

 

[dxBrian]

Here's another viewpoint on the minimum wage:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=072806B

 

[N628AU]

Mods: This thread should be closed or moved to general discussions. It has nothing to do with US.

 

[robbedagain]

dell, if that is true thenI dont understand why the West F/As arent picketing They are veyr much part of the new US family as the rest of us are

 

[Dog Wonder]

Actually, the minimum wage law is immoral. If I am willing to work for the wages that you offer, I should be able to accept that. The government should not force businesses to pay higher wages than people are willing to work for.

There is nothing wrong with an entry level wage. When you first take a job, you may be getting paid more than what your skills are worth. Most people making the minimum wage are teenagers paying for their cell phones and car insurance.

Raising the minimum wage can cause job loss. An employer can not afford to pay more for a worker or workers than the cost he can pass on to the consumer. He will pay fewer people who are more productive to perform the same work.

On the other hand, very few people work for the minimum wage anyway. Most employers have to pay more than that to attract employees. Why else would McDonald's and BK be paying $7 or more to start in a lot of the country.
The biggest problem with the minimum wage is this: If the government can set a minimum wage, what is to stop them from setting a maximum wage?

OK Rush wannabe, now pack up your Drs. Viagra and take your private jet to the Dominican where there you can support the exploitation of young girls.

Damn, if there were no minimum wage in the States you could exploit them here too.

Take two Oxycontin and don't call us we'll call you. Hope you hear the phone ring.

 

[700UW]

After a decade of refusing to even vote on giving low-wage workers a raise, it looks like the Republican leadership of the U.S. House may bow to political pressure and finally act. According to media reports, House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) has predicted the House will take a minimum wage vote this fall or sooner—before the November elections.

Here’s the hitch: Republican leaders don’t want to face voters in November without giving minimum wage workers their first raise since 1997—while voting to increase their own pay nine times. In fact, 48 moderate Republicans have urged House leaders to schedule a minimum wage vote they can campaign with. But the Republican leadership remains opposed to helping out America’s low-wage workers and is likely to try a sleight of hand move to pass a smaller, stingier increase and possibly tie it to attacks on workplace rights.

The minimum wage remains stuck at a shameful $5.15 an hour—a guarantee of poverty for even a small family struggling to survive at the wage floor. Meanwhile, members of Congress have voted to increase their own pay by $34,900 a year—three times more than a minimum wage worker’s total annual salary.

America is supposed to value hard work and represent the opportunity for anyone who works hard and plays by the rules to get a foothold on the American Dream. Instead, Republican leaders in Congress have steadfastly refused to increase the minimum wage, which has lost half its buying power since it last was raised. Today, a minimum wage worker has to put in more than 11 hours just to buy a tank of gas to get to and from work.

This injustice and insult to low-wage workers has gone on long enough. Now we have a chance at a House vote to raise the wage. Please urge your U.S. representative to increase the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour with no anti-worker amendments.

 

[Doc]

I posted it on here because I feel that our wages are depressed and this republican government couldn’t give a rats A#% …. We here at USAirways know all to well what happens in this environment.

The rich get richer and Unions get squashed.

Do you think a democratic government would have let them throw your pension away? We will never know.

 

[N628AU]

700UW:

No one is raising a family on the minimum wage. NO ONE! Your argument about making it so hard to do is nice, but it only occurs in the fantasyland made up by the political left. The reason so many unions fight for a raise in the minimum wage is not because they are trying to stand up for anyone at the minimum wage, but because they have contractual pay rates tied to a percentage of it (note I am not saying any of US union workers are tied to it).

 

[Seatacus]

Could someone tell me how high the minimum wage should be? Many say it is too low, so how high should it be?

 

[robbedagain]

how could anyone raise a family on minimum wages? it cant be done. I am struggling as a single parent with a speical needs son at 10.66 an hr with piedmont, but I am doing it. just hard. Thats is one of a few reasons why I cant wait until next summer when I will try to transfer to mainline in either BWI or DCA, although I do prefer BWI.
That and because of family medical issues are the reason.

 

[USCREW]

I hope you'll get in. DCA is a very nice station.