Current Events > TAMU Professor says she'd hire less students if she had to pay them $15 per hour

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Payzmaykr posted...

The point is that I like the idea, but raising minimum wage without taking protective measures to ensure that the workers actually KEEP the money is not the right thing to do. You could raise minimum wage to $1,000/minute and the rent and insurance costs would increase to accommodate it. You cant raise minimum wage without making laws to force corporate businesses to pay more money and accept a loss, like they should be.

Agreed, and obviously any minimum wage increase should also include more protections for the working class

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Turtlemayor333 posted...

Yeah well that's how it is in my state too and it's like 8 bucks.

Shhh. You aren't supposed to point out that this happens even when minimum wage doesn't increase. Otherwise, it takes the bite out of the "increased wages decreases jobs" boogeyman.

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If minimum wage increased with inflation these kinds of arguments wouldn't need to constantly come up and it wouldn't feel like such a drastic change. But businesses can't be trusted gradually increasing wages when it's fair to do so.

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Payzmaykr posted...

Well, yeah. Every state that has higher minimum wage learned this the hard way:

This will never result in corporations shelling out more money and taking better care of the employees. Notice the hourly pay? Your hours plummet from 60/week to like 25, and youre not making ends meet while the business owner does perfectly fine.

Go to a state with high minimum wage and go into a McDonalds. There will be ONE person frantically trying to handle the window and lobby while the customers steadily get angrier over having to wait 15 minutes for one cheeseburger.

The point is that I like the idea, but raising minimum wage without taking protective measures to ensure that the workers actually KEEP the money is not the right thing to do. You could raise minimum wage to $1,000/minute and the rent and insurance costs would increase to accommodate it. You cant raise minimum wage without making laws to force corporate businesses to pay more money and accept a loss, like they should be.

And you wonder why violence from customers against staff has gone way up, if the minimum wage was left alone, there were more employees, mistakes would happen less often, and people wouldn't try to hurt or kill the staff over a mistake.
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I did unpaid RA work, I had unpaid RAs when I was a grad student, but I pay my RAs now because Japan requires it. But it's surprising she was paying them to begin with in America.

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Hop103 posted...

And you wonder why violence from customers against staff has gone way up, if the minimum wage was left alone, there were more employees, mistakes would happen less often, and people wouldn't try to hurt or kill the staff over a mistake.

Exactly. It directly affects the city, too you cant get decent service. It comes down to the fact that the CEOs arent okay taking a loss to take care of their employees, and this is actually a punishment to cities and states who raise the minimum wage. These corporations are so powerful that they essentially write the laws governing them.