@denisedwheeler.bsky.social

Peel away all the logical fallacies, and it kinda seems like he's saying that the minimum yearly salary should be $80,000, without saying it.

Looks like he wants to focus on the symptoms and victims, not the cause and people who keep the status quo.

#raiseminimumwage

Trump The Scab Gloats About Refusing To Pay Workers Overtime

Such a man of the people.

Wonkette
Biden to sign order to prioritize grants for projects with higher worker wages

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order for federal grants that would prioritize projects with labor agreements, wage standards and benefits such as access to child care and apprenticeship programs

ABC News
Harris Has To Decide: Senate Decorum Or Working-Class Policy

Harris capitulated to niceties rather than help workers — will she act differently now?

The Lever

Ikea’s CEO has solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcare | Fortune Europe

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/06/11/ikeas-boss-solved-swedish-retailers-global-unhappy-worker-crisis-raising-salaries-introducing-flexible-working-subsidized-childcare/

#UnionStrong #RaiseMinimumWage #TaxTheRich

Ikea’s boss solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcare

In 2022 around a third of Ikea's global workforce quit, costing the company an average of $5,000 per employee.

Fortune
Senate Bill 1186: Pennsylvania's Bold Move to $20 Minimum Wage - MyChesCo

PHILADELPHIA, PA — On Friday, Senate Democratic Whip Christine M. Tartaglione unveiled a groundbreaking proposal to boost Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $20 per hour. The proposed legislation, Senate Bill 1186, …

MyChesCo

Can we please pay fast food workers more? First, they deserve a proper livable wage. Second, it might result in fewer mistakes in my doordash order

#RaiseMinimumWage

We know Sinema hates workers since she wouldn't vote to raise the minimum wage, yet she had a lot of company. No Republicans supported raising the minimum wage!!

After the longest period in history without an increase, the federal minimum wage today is worth 27% less than 13 years ago—and 40% less than in 1968 (After adjusting for inflation)

https://www.epi.org/blog/epis-top-charts-of-2022-epis-most-popular-charts-tell-the-story-of-how-pandemic-setbacks-in-income-inequality-were-mitigated-by-pandemic-relief/

#GOPHatesWorkers
#WantTheirSerfsBack
#GOPInBedWithRich
#RaiseMinimumWage

"Last July marked the longest period without a minimum wage increase since Congress established the federal minimum wage in 1938, and continued inaction on the federal minimum wage over the past year has only further eroded the minimum wage’s value. As shown, a worker paid the current $7.25 federal minimum wage earns 27.4% less in inflation-adjusted terms than what their counterpart was paid in July 2009 when the minimum wage was last increased, and 40.2% less than a minimum wage worker in February 1968, the historical high point of the minimum wage’s value.

EPI’s top charts of 2022: EPI’s most popular charts tell the story of how pandemic setbacks in income inequality were mitigated by pandemic relief

Rising CEO pay, a pandemic further undermining low and middle-income workers, and the growing gap between worker productivity and their pay continued to impede income equality. Through it all, however, government pandemic stimulus programs gave a lifeline to many of those struggling to make ends meet, helping keep millions out of poverty. All these important…

Economic Policy Institute

It's just a little bit ridiculous that two adults with FT jobs and multiple college degrees can't earn enough to raise a family because the cost of living out-paced our earning power before we joined the workforce.

#RaiseMinimumWage

This is a disgrace.
#RaiseMinimumWage