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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScott Walker To Workers: Forget A ‘Living Wage,’ A $7.25 Minimum Is More Than Enough
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/scott-walker-to-workers-forget-a-living-wage-a-7-25-minimum-is-more-than-enough/Scott Walkers war against Wisconsin workers is reaching a tipping point as he and his corporate cronies attempt to pass a budget to fund his government through the next year. Walker has used the impasse between the parties as an excuse to jam several new controversial and non-budgetary related pieces of legislation into the final bill. A common, if not very shady tactic, the Wisconsin State Journal reported that the 24-pages of additions are a lobbyists menu of pet projects, ranging from allowing police officers to withhold information regarding police shootings, expanding the amount of lead allowed in paint, expanding the amount of services that predatory payday lenders may use to extort funds from the poor and the vulnerable, and removes accountability rules on the sale of military surplus items.
But the biggest items hidden among the mundane and the arbitrary are direct shots aimed at organized labor and the Wisconsin working class. He proposes to remove the right of workers to have at least one day off a week, allowing companies to pressure their workers into working seven or more days straight. It would entirely remove the hundred-year old definition of a workers right to a living wage- defined as enough money to provide minimum comfort, decency, physical and moral well-being, and replace it with the minimum wage- which is a paltry $7.25 an hour. This comes right as a labor group, Wisconsin Jobs Now, is suing Walker over the failure of $7.25 to fulfill the needs of a living wage and demanding that he form a commission to determine a more appropriate amount.
Its a clear concession to one of Walkers major campaign contributors, the Wisconsin Restaurant Association, which relies on a low minimum wage to keep profit margins high and their workers exploitable. Wisconsin worker Cornell White remarks that I am a hard working man. Its disgusting that these Republicans would rather force me to feed my son with food stamps instead of standing up to their corporate lobbyist friends. The successes of Los Angeles and Seattle provide strong evidence that increasing the minimum wage to $15 provides huge benefits across the economy. Under Walkers plans and the Republican handbook, workers are kept in near-poverty while the money goes to big corporations and the wealthiest Wisconsinites. Its an absolute travesty and an insulting dismissal of the struggles of the American worker, who Walker and the GOP dont even pretend to represent anymore. With luck, Wisconsin Democrats will prevail in preventing these awful provisions from passing.
But the biggest items hidden among the mundane and the arbitrary are direct shots aimed at organized labor and the Wisconsin working class. He proposes to remove the right of workers to have at least one day off a week, allowing companies to pressure their workers into working seven or more days straight. It would entirely remove the hundred-year old definition of a workers right to a living wage- defined as enough money to provide minimum comfort, decency, physical and moral well-being, and replace it with the minimum wage- which is a paltry $7.25 an hour. This comes right as a labor group, Wisconsin Jobs Now, is suing Walker over the failure of $7.25 to fulfill the needs of a living wage and demanding that he form a commission to determine a more appropriate amount.
Its a clear concession to one of Walkers major campaign contributors, the Wisconsin Restaurant Association, which relies on a low minimum wage to keep profit margins high and their workers exploitable. Wisconsin worker Cornell White remarks that I am a hard working man. Its disgusting that these Republicans would rather force me to feed my son with food stamps instead of standing up to their corporate lobbyist friends. The successes of Los Angeles and Seattle provide strong evidence that increasing the minimum wage to $15 provides huge benefits across the economy. Under Walkers plans and the Republican handbook, workers are kept in near-poverty while the money goes to big corporations and the wealthiest Wisconsinites. Its an absolute travesty and an insulting dismissal of the struggles of the American worker, who Walker and the GOP dont even pretend to represent anymore. With luck, Wisconsin Democrats will prevail in preventing these awful provisions from passing.
Well, then, Scottie should be willing to work for $7.25 an hour.
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Scott Walker To Workers: Forget A ‘Living Wage,’ A $7.25 Minimum Is More Than Enough (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jul 2015
OP
Man of Distinction
(109 posts)1. Workers to Walker: Work on our jobs and live for a week at 7.25/hour
28 hours workweek, 7.25 an hour.
Walker's finished. He's a fucking Koch moron.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. I wonder if he pays his campaign staffers $7.25 an hour
He'll be scraping the bottom the barrel if he does.
LakeVermilion
(1,042 posts)3. Watch Wisconsin graduates head for Illinois or Minnesota.
The only ones left will be wearing cheese headpieces.
Kansas and Wisconsin, nice job Republics!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)4. Louisiana's in the toilet, too, thanks to Booby.
postulater
(5,075 posts)5. 2 nieces, 1 nephew have already left.
My 2 daughters dont have much in the way of job prospects either.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)6. He really, really wants to end up like
Mussolini or Ceaucescu, doesn't he?
Hope he gets his wish.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)7. Walker is nothing more than a Kock weasel
Initech
(100,081 posts)8. Scott Walker is a real life Sheriff of Nottingham.
And the Kochs are a real life Prince John. Where's our Robin Hood when you need him?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)9. Russ Feingold?
GusBob
(7,286 posts)10. No weekends? For the evrlasting life of me:WHO VOTED FOR THIS DICKHEAD?????
I'm just.....gawd