Contained in this snarky piece about Murray’s transition is some serious talk about the $15 minimum wage.
I asked Murray about the $15 minimum wage, an issue he ended up campaigning on and which has a lot of traction in the city, with Kshama Sawant’s win and the win in SeaTac. On the trail he didn’t give a real timeline for how to get there, but today he said, “We’ll begin our process immediately… We’re having our discussions in the transition team already.” He wants to “bring people to the table” (a politician? Who knew?!), and says “if we end up in a labor-business war, it won’t happen.” He also wants to be “especially sensitive to our small neighborhood businesses—like the Pike/Pine corridor,” he laughed.
I’m going to take that as a positive sign that stuff can get done quickly, and not that it means that the Chamber of Commerce or other bidness groups get a veto. He did run on it, and presumably in 4 years will want it as an accomplishment not as a place where a challenger can stake out a position to his left. And, you know, it’s the right thing to do and popular. And he’ll have at least one City Council member pushing him pretty hard on it.
“We’ll begin our process immediately… We’re having our discussions in the transition team already, about how to best cause lay-offs and prevent new jobs.”
@1 “Furthermore, if we raise the minimum wage, all those hamburger flippers will be replaced by robots!”
On the national level, conservatives have their panties in a twist over talk about raising the $7.15 federal minimum wage to 9 bucks. They’re outraged! Oh, and they didn’t forget to mention — you can all be replaced by ROBOTS!!!
At least the robots would get peoples orders correct.
@4 You obviously haven’t had much experience with automated prescription refill systems.
@ 4
Garbage in, garbage out.
@5, use Safeways every month, works great.
So, the only options to conservatives, are working like a serf and starving slowly or being replaced by a robot and starving quickly?
Nobody sees a problem with this?
@8 Conservatives don’t see a problem with anything, as long as you dance to their tune and jump through their hoops.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new.....ation?lite
Btw, bravo for publishers who refuse to rewrite science to make fanatics happy.
Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK from the Texas School Book Depository building. I wonder if he propped the rifle on a stack of creationist biology books? Maybe he sat there reading that stuff while waiting for the motorcade to show up. I doubt that Texass
book-burning committees were any more enlightened then than they are now.
Don’t get sick in Texass unless you want to be treated by a doctor who was taught that illness is the work of the devil and people get sick because they’re sinners. It’s a good place to fly
around, but not over or through.