The Emeryville proposal faces a final approval vote on May 19. It would take effect on July 1, when the minimum wage would rise to $14.44 an hour for businesses with at least 55 workers and $12.25 for smaller companies, city documents show.
It would increase gradually every year until it reaches $16 for all businesses in 2019.
"Just as our workers are creative enough to make a living off of minimum wage and support their families, I think our businesses will be creative enough to make it work and we'll all lift up together," Emeryville City Councilwoman Dianne Martinez said at the meeting on Tuesday.
Emeryville is a regional destination for shoppers becasue of its big box retail outlets,such as Ikea and Home Depot.
Other major employers include:
| # | Employer | # of Employees |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pixar | 1,275 |
| 2 | Novartis | 840 |
| 3 | AC Transit | 526 |
| 4 | Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals | 499 |
| 5 | Oaks Card Club | 416 |
| 6 | Amyris | 336 |
| 7 | IKEA | 330 |
| 8 | LeapFrog | 318 |
| 9 | Ex'pression College for Digital Arts | 229 |
| 10 | MobiTV | 223 |
Most workers in Emeryville are now covered by the California state minimum wage of $9.00 per hour.
It is difficult to see how such a major jump in the minimum wage will not hurt low productivity workers at the big box retailers, who use much low productivity workers. Here comes the unemployment increases.
Even Panera Bread in St Louis is moving toward robots, in the face of minimum wage pressures.
Timothy Wangelin emails:
-RW
Even Panera Bread in St Louis is moving toward robots, in the face of minimum wage pressures.
Timothy Wangelin emails:
This article was in the St. Louis Post Dispatch this morning. Panera Bread (based in St. Louis and known as St. Louis Bread Company in St. Louis) is introducing kiosks. They are spinning the kiosks as being more efficient for customers. This may be true to some extent, but we all know the real reason for the investment in self-service kiosks.
-RW
"Just as our workers are creative enough to make a living off of minimum wage and support their families, I think our businesses will be creative enough to make it work and we'll all lift up together,"
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So she admits that the tiny percentage of breadwinners who earn minimum wage can indeed support their families.
ReplyDelete"I think our businesses will be creative enough to make it work and we'll all lift up together," Dianne Martinez
ReplyDelete"From the first extortion he had accepted, from the first directive he had obeyed, he had given them cause to believe that reality was a thing to be cheated, that one could demand the irrational and someone somehow would provide it. […] the monstrous extortions, the impossible demands, the inexplicable victories of evil, the preposterous plans and unintelligible goals proclaimed in volumes of muddy philosophy, the desperate wonder of the victims who thought that some complex, malevolent wisdom was moving the powers destroying the world - and all of it had rested on one tenet behind the shifty eyes of the victors: he'll do something! . . . We'll get away with it - he'll let us - he'll do something!" - Atlas Shrugged; Part 3, chapter 6
I'm still waiting for the list of names of all those persons here in the USA that died from starvation and/or exposure while working for a "non-living wage."
ReplyDeleteCreative and arithmetic are usually not a good combination. -- Hadden
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