1ºShovan K Ambush You’re right. But it’s not impossible, there is even assistance sometimes based on job skills and safety I.e batter spouses
Also - start voting differently. California is over regulated, people keep voting for MORE and things keep getting more expensive…. John Stossel has great information to get you started.
My issue with this is we are not all the same, we all have different skills, aptitude’s… etc. etc. We need to stop handing things to people and acting like we are all the same. Start requiring personal responsibility.
I’m great at what I do, I don’t need a union to fight for me to get what i feel I deserve. But also don’t do what my bosses do, nor am I risking everything I’ve ever owned to start and run a business. They deserve more than I do **with regard to earnings from the business.
Unions and politicians are criminal. That is the problem here. Not business owners and employees.
2ºTom Kleveno
The Average minimum wage earner in the United States is 35. The $15 isn't just for "burger flippers", and it's ignorant to pretend it is. Not everyone has the financial means, nor the needed skills to accomplish everything in life. Others are in situations where the only jobs that meet their schedule are low paying jobs. Think of the parent who can't even get close to affording daycare, so they take a job at night when someone is available to care for their child. That's not a bad person, but one whose circumstances should be considered. Or the student who takes classes during the day. The senior citizen whose Social Security isn't enough to get their medications and eat on the same day. It is unfair to assume everyone has the same intellect, or availability or financial resources. Some may be trying to better themselves with education, and need whatever job they can get just to survive. The minimum wage in this country has always been intended to be a living wage, and that’s what it needs to be. The average age of an American minimum wage earner is 35. There are 1.7 million minimum wage or below workers in the U.S. today.
3ºJamie Hendricks I have enough practical knowledge, personal senior financial business experience, and enough formal financial and business education to not have to ask whether a global pandemic, that crippled the airline industry for over two years, likely has an impact on those service firm’s inability to issue raises.
Are you the type of person that believes that you must work in that industry to be able to put basic knowledge and common sense together to make practical connections to business applications? I don’t have to have an MBA or be the CEO of one of these companies to know this is a contributing factor. Let’s live over on reality street shall we?
4ºLumber unions are the ones that got Marijuana outlawed in the first place. Teachers unions are against competition. Labor unions are hired by the government to take twice as long repairing roads etc. instead of who can do it best and fastest. Unions protect the lazy and special interests.
Again ask… Anyone. Do you think every single of these employees put in an Equal amount of work, effort, attitude? Why should we all be paid the same if some are not working as hard as others? If big brother government stopped “saving” everyone and thing ALL would run much smoother. There is no such thing as “too big to fail” no one has your best interest in mind the way You do, and the government cannot spend your money better than would. 
5ºthe union says, and wages were well above the $15 an hour minimum level in effect when the last contract was negotiated in 2018. (current wages are 17.05) The contract includes fully-paid health care and a traditional pension plan.
So basically the union negotiated won some huge gains like a pension FOR POURING COFFEE and FULLY PAID not subsidized, but FULLY PAID health insurance mind you.....
And now they want more.
Fully paid healthcade is probably on part with 3-5 thousand a year. They also get a pension plan
Okie dokie. Sounds ridiculous when put in context and not reading a headline right?
6ºAfter having been cancelled when CNN+ went under, Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? debuted Sunday night on the regular CNN and, much like CNN+’s failed existence, it tanked with a scant 425,000 viewers at 7:00 p.m. Eastern and more than a third behind the total put up by the Fox News Channel. In his debut episode, Wallace spoke with retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, actor Tyler Perry, and country singer Shania Twain as part of his pledge for the show “to explore some of my other interests” alongside politics, and would thus foster “smart, thoughtful conversations with a wide range of people from news makers to athletes, CEO's to comedians, musicians to movie stars, and everyone in between.” Based on the first episode, viewers must not have found them “smart” and “thoughtful conversations” worth tuning in for.
7ºTom Kleveno It's so simple in this world to have an opinion based on nothing. Here's the facts: FDR "In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living." http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html
8ºVictor Chin Every job worth doing is worth a living wage. Minimum wage has always been intended for precisely that. Here's the facts: FDR "In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living." http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html
9ºI don’t know what these people make, but I do think a lack of pay increases makes sense due to the industry growth and pandemic over the course of most of those 4 years.
If you didn’t give raises in that first year, that’s not uncommon. COVID hit and no other industry was impacted more than air travel. That’s another 2.5 years of dismal revenues and no ability to forecast future growth for those businesses.
That leaves about 6-12 months of recovery for those firms leading up to the last 4 years. It takes at least that long for senior leadership to understand their revenue forecasts and what raises would make sense for sustainability.
I’m not saying they aren’t getting screwed, but it does make some sense that this industry hasn’t seen pay increases. Want to know another industry that hasn’t seen pay raises in 4 years? Oil and gas. That’s for the exact same reason as I explained above.
10ºI had this conversation several times with my father, who was a Republican and born in 1945. He often called "kids these days" lazy and how can they "demand $15/hr to flip burgers?" So I'd ask him....How much was minimum wage in 1965 (when he was 20....). It was $1.25/ hr. 40 hours a week is $50/week. Average rent was $100/mo. Utilities (gas & electric) ran about $1.80/month. So, not only could he pay rent and utilities, he had money left over for food, savings, and date night to the movies with his girlfriend. No, he wasn't traveling the world or have boats and 5 cars in the driveway, but he could put a roof over his head, put a little away for a rainy day, and put food on the table. I would ask him....WHY...at 20...making minimum wage....HE could support himself but that 20 year olds today cannot? Why was HE (and everyone else in his generation) granted the privilege of only working 40 hours a week on minimum wage, but still being able to support yourself but the generations to follow cannot? I was born in the mid 70's. I was 18/19 by the mid 90's and *I* couldn't support myself with the basics on minimum wage. He never did have an answer for me.