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brooklynite

(94,792 posts) Wed Apr 1, 2015, 02:43 PM Apr 2015

Seattle workers hail 'historic moment' as city sets course for $15 minimum wage

Source: The Guardian

Nearly 40,000 low-wage workers will get an instant pay rise on Wednesday, when Seattle begins to phase in a landmark $15 minimum wage law that was passed amid controversy last year.

Beginning April 1, the minimum wage for an employer with more than 500 employees rises from just over $9 to $11 per hour; for smaller employers, it becomes $10 per hour.

Over the next few years, stepped increases in the minimum wage will continue, until all workers in the city of Seattle earn at least $15 an hour by 1 January 2017, more than double the federal minimum wage.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/01/seattle-workers-minimum-wage-pay-rise

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Seattle workers hail 'historic moment' as city sets course for $15 minimum wage (Original Post) brooklynite Apr 2015 OP

And it begins... daleanime Apr 2015 #1

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!! SamKnause Apr 2015 #2

K&R! Sherman A1 Apr 2015 #3

Bah Sparhawk60 Apr 2015 #4

K & R. n/t FSogol Apr 2015 #5

daleanime

(17,796 posts)

1. And it begins...

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Wed Apr 1, 2015, 02:50 PM

Apr 2015

SamKnause

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2. AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!

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Wed Apr 1, 2015, 03:26 PM

Apr 2015

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

3. K&R!

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Wed Apr 1, 2015, 03:43 PM

Apr 2015

Sparhawk60

(359 posts)

4. Bah

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Thu Apr 2, 2015, 08:58 AM

Apr 2015

Next thing you know, every one will have a living wage. What kind of country would this be if every one who works hard is paid enough to afford food, housing and health care?? It's a slippery slope I tell you, before you know it, the poors will be taking sick days and not infecting every one around them.

And has any one stopped and thought what this would do to the deficit? If every one was paid a living wage, welfare, medicare and food stamps would no longer be needed. That would destroy our deficit.

/sarcasm off

FSogol

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5. K & R. n/t

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Thu Apr 2, 2015, 04:27 PM

Apr 2015

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