Het
volgende artikel vond ik via Anti-Media, die me ‘linkte’ naar TheHill, echter het artikel van The Hill was niet over te
nemen, vandaar dit alternatief van de Huffington Post…….
Vanaf
1 januari jl. is het minimumloon in de VS verhoogt naar het schandalig lage federale
niveau van houd je vast: $ 7.25 per uur…….
Het
‘hoogste’ minimumloon verdient men sinds afgelopen maandag in de staat
Washington, met een bedrag van $ 11.50 per uur……….. Let wel, gezien de koers van de dollar het laatste jaar moet je daar voor omrekening naar euro’s nog eens rond de 20% van aftrekken, ofwel meer dan € 2,–…….
De VS,
het land van de ‘ongekende mogelijkheden’, althans voor de welgestelden en
ondernemers……..
Moet je
nagaan, het grootste deel van de republikeinen is zelfs tegen deze
armzalige loonsverhoging……. Wat een ploert moet je dan zijn, maar
op zondag zit dat inhumane geteisem uiteraard jubelend voor in de kerk…..
Het is zelfs zo zot dat een aantal staten die republikeins worden bestuurd, wetten hebben aangenomen, waarin een verbod is opgenomen om op lokaal niveau de minimumlonen te verhogen, dit daar de bonden en arbeiders ‘iets teveel succes hadden’, met hun strijd voor een verhoging van het minimumloon….. Zo werd in St. Louis het minimumloon verlaagd van $ 10.– naar het federale minimumloon van $ 7.25 per uur (in het onderstaande artikel wordt daar gesproken over $ 7.70 per uur, echter dat moet zoals u eerder kon en zo kan lezen $ 7.25 zijn)…….
De VS? Wat een
land mensen, walgelijk!!
Minimum
Wage Raises Coming To 18 States On New Year’s Day
Some
hikes (loonsverhogingen, Ap)
are less than a quarter an hour. But when you’re making minimum
wage, every penny counts.
Minimum
wage workers in 18 states will get a pay hike next week when higher
wage floors go into effect around the country for 2018.
With
the federal minimum wage remaining just $7.25 per hour, more and more
states have opted to implement
their own, higher rates that
local employers must observe. Many of the bumps slated for New Year’s
Day come courtesy of recent ballot initiatives approved by voters or
bills passed by statehouses, in red and blue states alike.
Some
of those states have laws requiring that the minimum wage is adjusted
each year according to an inflation index, to rise with the cost of
living. So several of the raises amount to less than a quarter an
hour.
But
other states that recently enacted new laws will have more
significant increases. Maine’s will move a full dollar, to $10.
Hawaii’s will rise 85 cents, to $10.10. And Colorado’s will
increase 90 cents, to $10.20.
Here
are the states with new minimum wages, according to the Economic
Policy Institute, a think tank that tracks minimum wage legislation:
-
Alaska:
$9.84, $.04 increase -
Arizona:
$10.50, $.50 increase -
California:
$11.00, $.50 increase -
Colorado:
$10.20, $.90 increase -
Florida:
$8.25, $.15 increase -
Hawaii:
$10.10, $.85 increase -
Maine:
$10.00, $1.00 increase -
Michigan:
$9.25, $.35 increase -
Minnesota:
$9.65, $.15 increase -
Missouri:
$7.85, $.15 increase -
Montana:
$8.30, $.15 increase -
New
Jersey: $8.60, $.16 increase -
New
York: $10.40, $.70 increase -
Ohio:
$8.30, $.15 increase -
Rhode
Island: $10.10, $.50 increase -
South
Dakota: $8.85, $.20 increase -
Vermont:
$10.50, $.50 increase -
Washington:
$11.50, $.50 increase
The
institute estimates that the raises will impact 4.5
million workers.
(For a map of the increases, go here.)
The
federal minimum wage hasn’t budged in more
than eight years and
prevails in any state that doesn’t mandate a higher one. The last
hike, in 2009, was the result of a series of increases signed into
law by President George W. Bush. President Barack
Obama stumped
for a minimum wage hike throughout his second term, but Republicans
in Congress blocked Democratic proposals from coming up for a vote.
Minimum
wage bumps tend to be popular with the general public, with support
often crossing partisan lines. A HuffPost
YouGov poll last
year found that more than half of all Americans thought a minimum
wage raise would be good for workers, while only a third thought it
would be a bad idea. The backing was greatest ― and most bipartisan
― for a modest hike to $10.10, as opposed to a bolder raise to $15.
Buoyed
by that support, labor unions and low-wage workers have succeeded in
getting raises passed on the state and local levels as the federal
rate has stayed stagnant. Voters have approved minimum wage
referendums even in more conservative states like Nebraska and South
Dakota. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia now require a
higher minimum wage than the federal one.
Dozens
of cities and counties have also raised their minimum wages beyond
the state and federal levels. In some cases, the hikes have gone as
high as $15 per hour ― the stated goal of the Fight for $15
campaign, the union-backed movement that began with striking
fast-food workers in 2012 but soon spread to other low-wage
industries.
All
that success by activists has prompted a backlash from Republican
state lawmakers seeking to rein in minimum wage hikes. More than two
dozen states
now have “preemption”
laws on
their books that block localities from implementing their own raises.
Many of these laws were passed in just the last few years to thwart
campaigns by workers and unions.
Just
this year, Republicans in Missouri passed a preemption law to
retroactively kill a minimum wage hike enacted by city leaders in St.
Louis. Under the new law, no locality could have a wage floor higher
than the one mandated by the state. As HuffPost reported in July, the
new law had the effect of reversing St.
Louis’ minimum wage, taking it from $10 to the current state level
of $7.70.
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Als u wel eens eet bij McDonalds of een andere pestfood-keten eet, steunt u deze schandalige lage minimumlonen, al deze ketens betalen hun personeel in de VS schunnig weinig (trouwens de medewerkers hier verdienen ook alles behalve voldoende…..)….. Boycotten die hap waardeloos voedsel!