Minimum Wage

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Are you kidding me? Tacoma and Lynnwood are both building huuuuuuge hubs. UPS is hiring out the ass here. Other places are hiring too.

Washington state?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I'm gonna say this in as simple terms as I can.
If a business cannot afford to pay a living wage, then they should not be in business at all.

That's all there is to it.

Define living wage.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Sorry I don't see your point, you tell me to thank them. Why? If I lived in Seattle I would punch them all in the face for making it more expensive to live there. Higher pay, higher prices, in some cases higher unemployment rates. Seattle has a plague of problems that could be abolished to make it cheaper to live there..yet their favorite thing to do is RAISE pretty much everything..

It's an economic filtering system designed to keep out the undesirables.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Doesn't work like that.

Maybe it should.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

No doubt, but a 'consumption' tax would hurt the 'working poor' much more than the 'rich'.

...which is why such a plan would include prebates...

 

[DriveInDriѵeOut]

Define living wage.

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[Brownslave688]

Seattle's $15 minimum wage may be hurting workers, report finds


Maybe this is what started the discussion yesterday...

 

[Brownslave688]

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I don't understand why people don't move to cheaper areas and why companies don't move to cheaper areas.

"Living wage" in my county is $9.50. People would be stoked to be making $15+ at factories if they moved here.

 

[Brownslave688]

sounds like u dont do anything but debate here.

Pot meet kettle

 

[MAKAVELI]

I don't understand why people don't move to cheaper areas and why companies don't move to cheaper areas.

"Living wage" in my county is $9.50. People would be stoked to be making $15+ at factories if they moved here.

Cheaper areas are cheap for a reason. Nobody wants to live there.

 

[Brownslave688]

Cheaper areas are cheap for a reason. Nobody wants to live there.

It's a chicken and egg deal. Usually it's because there aren't many jobs.

Here it's mostly prisons schools and power plants. But the fact that this area doesn't have more factories or distribution centers has always amazed me. Two interstates within 5 miles. A dozen or more major cities within 1 days drive for a trucker.

 

[MAKAVELI]

It's a chicken and egg deal. Usually it's because there aren't many jobs.

Here it's mostly prisons schools and power plants. But the fact that this area doesn't have more factories or distribution centers has always amazed me. Two interstates within 5 miles. A dozen or more major cities within 1 days drive for a trucker.

It's more of a supply and demand thing. There are also areas with few jobs that are just as if not more expensive than metro areas.

 

[rickyb]

Pot meet kettle

i walk the walk as well. but i could do more.

 

[MAKAVELI]

It's a chicken and egg deal. Usually it's because there aren't many jobs.

Here it's mostly prisons schools and power plants. But the fact that this area doesn't have more factories or distribution centers has always amazed me. Two interstates within 5 miles. A dozen or more major cities within 1 days drive for a trucker.

Most distribution centers and factories are located in close proximity to airports and suppliers.

 

[Brownslave688]

Most distribution centers and factories are located in close proximity to airports and suppliers.

Suppliers I get.

Airport 20 minutes away. Train tracks run right thru the town and river port access under an hour away.

 

[What The Hawk?]

They're cutting hours because they can't afford the higher minimum wage. Sad but true.

 

[What The Hawk?]

Washington state?

Yes.

 

[rickyb]

They're cutting hours because they can't afford the higher minimum wage. Sad but true.

god, this is hard time for corporations, why with their record profits and all, how will they be able to pay their workers slightly more than minimum wage?

the way things are going were gonna have communism pretty soon.

 

[MAKAVELI]

Suppliers I get.

Airport 20 minutes away. Train tracks run right thru the town and river port access under an hour away.

Access to an employee workforce is another factor. A factory or distribution center would have to attract employees to relocate to a more remote area and where there is less resources for them to live, shop, and go to school. Where as a metro area or its suburbs already have those resources and a larger employee pool to hire from. It's not as simple as "Build it and they will come".

 

[What The Hawk?]

god, this is hard time for corporations, why with their record profits and all, how will they be able to pay their workers slightly more than minimum wage?

the way things are going were gonna have communism pretty soon.

Slightly? Rethink, and research before using that term. The raise isn't a slight raise, it's several dollars.