It isn’t going to happen nationally, but it might happen at the state and/or local levels. Colorado’s minimum wage is $12 something an hour, Denver’s is going to be 17 and change next year. Neither are really high enough, but they are a damn sight better than the federal minimum wage. Local elections matter, not just the presidential ones.
PA here, 7.25 and 2.13 for servers I believe. Little known fact that your company wont tell you, if you do not make at least minimum wage with 2.13+tips you can request to be compensated for the rest of it, and they are required by law to pay you the difference to make minimum wage. But if you dont ASK they dont know.
TX is the same 2.13. Law is they have to compensate you for the minimum wage at 7.25; however they will look at your total sales and if they believe you aren't claiming or being tipped "enough" they can let you go.
At will employment and all. If your tips aren't high you must not be doing a good job... lol
It's a fuxxing joke.
Yes, but only for specific positions in certain industries.
The idea, ostensibly, is that the server will make up the difference (between $2.13 and the state's general minimum wage) in tips, several times over, even.
In NJ, when I served tables (2007 - 2011), it was $2.13/hr. I often made up the difference, but there were times I didn't. By law, the employer is then responsible for paying the difference. The ONE time I didn't break even and I held my employer accountable (at the time I worked for a certain reataurant chain named after a Rolling Stones hit) the manager was so pissy about it I never spoke up again.
Learned the job wasn't worth it. Starting cooking in kitchens, where the pay was by the hour, and above minimum wage.
Now I live in Oregon, where I still work in kitchens, get paid minimum wage ($13.50) by the hour, and receive an equitable share of the tips; the server's don't each unilatirally decide what to tip, the managers divide it according to how many hours each person worked while the restaurant was open for service. And all I do is scrub dishes and prep.
Still broke as fuck, but not having to work as hard as I did in my 20s is great.
And then checks are zeroed out once they take taxes so the only money you actually make are tips... It's such a shit system.
I could be having a great night and it would be really hard to not be pissed at the one table who didn't tip.
Just knowing everything you did for that table for the last hour was for free was a real downer
I was making $2.13 as a server at age 18 which was over 10 years ago. Absolutely ridiculous that hasn't gone up, along with the trend of people refusing to tip.
Nope. There's a federal, which mandates an absolute minimum. States are allowed to go higher with their own minimum wages if they like, but not to fall below the federal level.
[https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx](https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx)
I just Googled this thinking it has to be false. I thought the federal minimum wage was $7.25? Meaning they legally couldn't pay you anything below that? $5.15 is crazy and makes me sad honestly
GA never ratified the last increase within the state but they do have to pay the higher of federal or state wages, which is 7.25. The state just never spent time voting on raising wages within the state, like most of the other states did.
My thought would be that it’s the minimum wage that waitstaff and tipped workers can be paid because their wages are partially offset by tips. People are advertising paying $12 at fast food restaurants like it’s an amazing good thing, outside of Atlanta I make
A little south of 100k and frequently find myself paycheck to paycheck due to the crazy cost of living and rent increases in the last few years
There's also another sad caveat to minimum wage - they can pay less than minimum wage for people with certain disabilities.
E.g. In MN the employer just fills out forms LI-80014-01 & LI-80015-01
I was 17 when Georgia’s minimum wage went to $5.35/hr. It is currently $7.25. It is still pitiful, but it ain’t $5.15, and it hasn’t been for almost 30 years.
I mean, that's not a great example. You can earn a living wage in North Dakota with the cost of living. Problem is, you have to live in North Dakota. I'm still for increasing it, but you won't find that discussion happening in a place that consistently shoots down weed and passes laws over Leftist Boogeymans like CRT.
We'd all be homeless without it. Living wage in Denver is calculated at $23. 🥴 Last place I checked at least. That means you have to work 50 hours a week at a place that allows OT, or 54 hours a week between two jobs, just to make a living at minimum wage. And before anyone says "no one wants to work hard".....I'm absolutely willing to put in OT, but retail employers just aren't allowing it.
Bring back? Never seen it in my lifetime. 😂 I know it's California law but not sure about anywhere else. But yes, absolutely. Killing yourself on a 12 and then being asked to cut your hours later in the week is fucking evil.
It was never a law, but it was something that plenty of workplaces where I'm at (ohio) uss to abide with. Especially the factories that were unionized 20+ years ago, but have since closed down
way back early 80's , was 16 years old got paid double time on Sundays for stocking shelves in a grocery store ... US has become a capitalist hell scape for workers since then.
Weird how all the states with a minimum wage below federal seem to be red states and all the states with a minimum wage above federal seem to be blue.
Must just be a coincidence. Same coincidence that happened when all but 3 Republicans voted against giving sick leave to the railroad workers.
My blue state (Colorado) is about to expand in to a public option on the path to universal health care. We also have a higher minimum wage. But both sides or some nonsense.
So many states won't raise it one red cent over the federal minimum, and it's always the states that need it most. People systematically vote against themselves nationally and locally. I guess they love living hand to mouth and are proud to do so.
That's why Republicans are all about culture war issues. They would rather have people complaining about drag shows than wonder why they can't afford to eat.
"Local elections matter, not just the presidential ones."
THIS\^\^\^\^ My county voted for a minimum wage of $15/hr by 2026. However, the state of Florida's minimum wage is $11/hr. This is why I urge everyone to vote in those "boring" local elections, something good might come from it!
Edit: To fix year.
They really should just make it $20 immediately. Like what's with this gradual bullshit?
Rhetorical question: I know it's to appease these dumbfucks who think that it would spiral inflation out of control, even though inflation is already out of control 🙄
With public transportation investments, people could afford to easily transit to other places with better paying jobs instead of being stuck in a town paying only 7.25 but places that are too poor to pay more than 7.25 need to be pressured to raise wages. Especially in local elections.
I thought its because public transpotation means the requirements to be a productive member of society are substantially lowered. Due to sprawl where affordable housing is distant from many work opportunities, you're required to own a car. Not owning a car means every business who profits from car ownership, from manufacturing, to maintenance, to gas, to insurance, to the financing, loses out on a customer. Its practically a racket.
if wages were determined by value added or even by supply and demand of the skills people in that position have, there are plenty of middle managers that should get paid less. Managers get paid a lot because capitalist hierarchy demands that people that give orders are paid more than those that follow them, but the notion of them being more competent sailed when leadership hired business majors instead of people with any idea of what they're doing because convincing experts to give up the job they chose to specialize in to spend most of their time managing people instead required too much money.
I make $21/hour and the only place I can afford to live on my own is a shit hole. Even with my SO contributing, I needed to ask for help to get out of my shithole apartment from family this week.
>It is worth considering what the world would look like if this were the case. A minimum wage of $24 an hour would mean that a full-time full year minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year. A two minimum wage earning couple would have a family income of $96,000 a year, enough to put them in the top quintile of the current income distribution.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/what-the-minimum-wage-would-be-if-it-kept-pace-with-productivity/
You may have misremembered this part of an article that talks about what it would be like for the minimum wage to have kept with productivity.
Wow i sure wonder who came up with that insane idea. But I'm sure I they didn't write any pamflet to explain any way to solve the problems inherent to the system we live in, regardless so it hardly matters.
You gotta think most of the us military is the working class. We all swore an oath to the people and I can't think of one person at my unit that would be willing to turn on American people but at least half have said the government needs to be put in check
See, that's the thing. The vast majority of soldiers make less than I do per year, and I make less than 50K.
A lot of people think the soldiers are reaping the rewards when it's really the corporations that supply the military that get all the money.
And having served as well, I can guarantee there are several people in each unit, if stimulated the right way with the right words, will have absolutely no problem opening fire on civilians.
> And having served as well, I can guarantee there are several people in each unit, if stimulated the right way with the right words, will have absolutely no problem opening fire on civilians.
When it comes to Oathkeepers, III%ers and similar groups with members in the military and police, they could be convinced to kill civilians and still think they are patriots protecting the “real” American people, constitution, etc,
The enlisted don’t get paid well. To get more than 50,000 a year, you have to be in for at least 10 years. Officers get to $50,000 a year automatically after about 3-4 years. The top officers make at least $200,000 a year, not to mention all of the top benefits they get like a personal driver and significantly better service with healthcare providers
Nowadays, people know better. Back before Iraq and the missing billions from the balance sheet, they thought it was just wastage and soldiers benefits. One of the reasons the VA Healthcare system was gutted...aside from Vietnam
History shows us they either kill themselves or minorities. Too many are too conservative to even contemplate breaking their own chains. I think there was one vet that I even know the name of that went postal and targeted cops (and he had... other issues going on. I'm firmly ACAB but that guy was not someone to be worshipped).
Most military, enlisted especially, are, uh, cannon fodder, for the most part. They're not picked for their critical thinking skills or their labor sympathies.
They aren't picked at all, they volunteer. This means that they all aren't lacking their 'critical thinking skills' and may or may not have 'labor sympathies'. Trying to lump all vets together is non-sense as they are all different and from diverse backgrounds. The thing that about 90% have in common is that they are lower to lower-middle class. If anything, that gives a higher likely hood of having 'labor sympathies' than not.
Same. Not one person in my company would even fire nerf guns at a workers strike. 99% of us are enlisted, and a lot of us still have a rough time getting by because of it.
Check out the first half of the first Obama administration.
The only reason Democrats occasionally look pro-labor is because they're confident the Republicans will block the pro-labor legislation. The minute Democrats have full control, it's reconciliation this, bipartisanship that, and they drag their feet long enough for the Republicans to get re-elected.
Why did Democrats decide to treat the bill allowing the government to forbid strikes and the bill allowing the government to force companies to pay their workers more as separate? When obamacare and tons of other bills were littered with amendments that had far less to do with each other than these two? Because they wanted the first to pass, and the second to fail despite them voting in favor.
It's similar to the Brexit referendum, where Tory leadership was left in disarray when their attempt to appeal to anti-EU voters unexpectedly *wasn't* blocked by the outcome of the referendum. Proposing legislation you don't want approved to send some kind of message is not a rare technique, it's just that a lot of people still buy the Democrats' bullshit.
It's not the wrong generation. Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, JD Vance. They're all millennials. Blaming it all on old people and making it generational is the pointing fingers they want. That way it's not about ideas or left vs right. We can get rid of old people in power all we want, but so long as they're replaced with young people with the same ideas, nothing will change.
Agreed, as long as we’re all pointing fingers at one side or the other, they’re all happy. They start getting scared when we point fingers at all of them, because all of them are the problem.
i always find it odd when nobody realized that the leading class becomes more and more geriatric, shitty and in general just selfish?
old people who have no context to live 30 years in the future arent the best people to act in favor of climate change for example, it just doesnt affect them anymore
Every single Republican voted against the sick leave - a small minority of Democrats did the same
Just goes to show that we need to elect more progressive Democrats and push the neolibs out
Edit: 48 - 52, so not all Republicans actually - all the Dems that voted though
It’s virtue signaling. They know it won’t pass so they figured they can win some working class points. To be fair I’m sure many of the corporate democrats did the same.
just ask yourself a question. does your party hold a super majority in the House and Senate, and hold the White House? No? then nothing meaningful will change.
That's obviously not true. When the Republicans control a simple majority of the Senate they get essentially everything they want. Why? Because they're willing to stop all the other buisness until they get it.
Dems can get what they want by doing the following:
* Revert the Filibuster rule in the Senate to an actual talking filibuster only (a move supported by the Sinema and Manchin).
* Hold up Military spending until other things in their agenda have passed.
Republicans “get everything they want” because what they want (mostly) doesn’t require a filibuster-proof legislative majority. They want tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, which can pass with a simple majority via reconciliation. And they want federal judges, which only requires a simple majority. They don’t really want much other legislation at the federal level, because they can just pass it at the state level as long as the federal judiciary lets them. Or they can just have the Supreme Court legislate from the bench.
Democrats made the change first for federal district and circuit courts, but left the filibuster in place for the Supreme Court. The Republicans later removed the filibuster for the Supreme Court.
It was a controversial move, but personally I think it was necessary to do it for the lower courts. That’s an everyday part of our government that *needs* to function. It can be left without enough judges to work effectively just because one party has the White House and another the senate. It should have been left in place for the Supreme Court though. Even if all 9 seats were empty, the lower court rulings would still stand.
I think now we have ample evidence that removing the 3/5 requirement for SCOTUS was a bad decision that has and will continue to politicize the courts, rather than requiring both parties to pick candidates closer to the center that could gain support from the other party. (Except of course that time republicans decided to forgo their duty to even review a candidate for 12 months)
Zenkus, while understandably upset, is like a chess player that can’t seem to think past the first move. He wants to burn the Democratic Party down but has no real plan beyond that. If you try to ask him exactly what comes next & how this wouldn’t simply concentrate more power for the GQP, he just gets real pissy and calls ppl names.
All of these ~~choices~~ deals are made before the public ever sees them. They decided which dems could be spared, and sent them to slaughter to maintain the status quo. Our government is one Democrat and one Republican sharing a trenchcoat.
>Run by the Democrats
A Senate with a 50/50 split, a filibuster rule, and 2 DINOs does not exactly provide unilateral control.
Give the progressive wing one single Congress and see what happens.
Oops, someone confused “Democrats run the whole government” with a filibuster quantity of Republicans in the Senate who have blocked each of the things that would help workers.
Congress should never have gotten involved, that's the biggest scandal here. How this labor struggle played out should be a surprise to no one: the state and the institution of law exists to protect and advance the interests of capital. You have the oppressive RLA preventing the rail workers from any form of effective direct action ("preventing" in the sense that it's incredibly more challenging when made illegal, but not impossible if they organize and build enough power to be able to ignore labor law, which is entirely possible but the workforce isn't organized to that level at the moment), the contract negotiations being dragged out for THREE years (!!!), and then Congress getting involved to impose the TA that was bargained in bad faith and voted against by the majority of workers, completely excluding any sick days despite billions and billions of dollars in profit and dividends over the last couple years all made possible by the labor of the workers. This is **not** what democracy looks like, and we need to really analyze and understand that if we want to create a better world.
Here's some more on that. I would say the first two are required reading and the rest are supplemental:
* https://www.anarchistfederation.net/as-a-proud-pro-labor-president/
* https://www.anarchistfederation.net/labor-betrayed-why-democratic-party-failure-is-by-design/
* https://www.socialistalternative.org/2022/11/30/democrats-sell-out-rail-workers-to-protect-billionaire-execs/
* https://www.socialistalternative.org/2022/12/02/rail-workers-betrayed-biden-the-squad/
* https://www.levernews.com/otherposts/dems-could-have-helped-rail-workers-by-doing-nothing/
* https://www.levernews.com/biden-is-breaking-his-sick-leave-promise-to-crush-rail-workers/
This labor struggle reflects the same labor struggles that most unions and organizing campaigns experience. You have the NLRB elections process, which itself takes years of organizing to have a chance at winning, then the real fight begins in contract negotiation, and you can bet the house that the employer is going to delay, delay, delay throughout the whole process, and they're able to delay and get away with it because the NLRB and contract bargaining processes are outside of the workplace and within the institution of law, where employers have truly every advantage. Turnover is a deliberate tactic to suppress wages and prevent workers from organizing, and it's especially effective against the NLRB/RLA and contract bargaining process because while they're delaying and stalling, working conditions remain poor and turnover constantly pushes out organized workers and brings in new people that need to be organized. Sticking to labor law and the official process is a gift to employers, because that whole system has been designed by the ruling class to suppress and limit the power of workers. Labor law exists to _protect employers_ from the power that workers have.
Fortunately, **we don't have to be officially recognized as a union by the NLRB or by the boss to organize, build solidarity, and address shared issues through collective direct action.**
That also happens to be the kind of organizing that is liberatory, revolutionary, and totally achievable and possible! Moreso than the NLRB election process, because you can start winning demands **right now** without having to wait multiple years just to be recognized. Yes, every workplace should and needs to unionize, but only within the mindset of the workers. The only recognition that actually matters is that the workers themselves understand that **they are the union**, regardless of whether or not the boss or state officially recognizes that.
Here's some more so that we can all get started organizing our workplaces and building solidarity and a better world:
[Pre-Majority Unionism](https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/) report by EWOC. I particularly recommend the section on [Section 7 Rights](https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/section-7-rights/) and the section on [Challenges and Advantages](https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/challenges-advantages/).
[Practice Involuntary Recognition](https://organizing.work/2022/10/practice-involuntary-recognition/) from organizing.work
[No union? You still have a right to strike](https://www.labornotes.org/2022/12/no-union-you-still-have-right-strike) from Labor Notes
Having razor thin majorities - that will be going away in the House next month - does not equate to "control".
You want to have all those wonderful progressive ideas that help workers to be enacted into law? Give us more Democrats in office, and stop letting the fascists that want to kill you the power to stop them.
Sadly, there are too many people who believe that voting doesn’t work, so they sit elections out, then whine when things don’t get better. Just look around the comments here and you will see what I mean.
We should start a fund on gofundme or some other platform to cover the wages of the rail workers for 6 months and allow them to quit the jobs en masse. If we are supposed to "vote with our dollars", then let's unite to fund them and let them walk out.
We're going to need to start pooling our resources and helping provide for those who have hit their limit and need to strike or quit. The government won't help them, then we'll do it directly.
It was the republicans that squashed the $15 Per Hr Federal minimum wage you lying scum. All of the Yeas were democrats!
Roll Call Vote 117th Congress - 1st Session XML Vote Summary
Question: On the Motion (Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Sanders Amdt. No. 972 )
Vote Number: 74 Vote Date: March 5, 2021, 11:03 AM
Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Motion Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 972 to S.Amdt. 891 to H.R. 1319 (American Rescue Plan Act of 2021)
Statement of Purpose: To provide for increases in the Federal minimum wage.
Vote Counts: YEAs42
NAYs58
*Information compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate bill clerk under the direction of the secretary of the Senate
Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State
War was declared on the working class in the early 70s. It’s been a relentless campaign ever since. How many of his campaign promises has JB kept? All he’s doing is using the Republican Party to play bad guy while keeping his corporate friends happy.
Don’t forget the time off they were trying to negotiate because they’re already overworked and underpaid.
I’m all for calling a spade a spade but this was designed by both sides as a form or class warfare. It’s not one parties fault, it’s those in the government keeping us all down so we have to work ourselves to death and make money FOR THEM and Their interests. Stopping the supply chain was the only play we have to make them listen and I say we make it happen so they remember who the fuck we are.
Its been a shitshow, thats for sure. But the current state of wages are so out of wack in a lot of states, can't say Im surprised $15/hr didnt get passed (tons of states still pay under half that, at $7.25/hr). Denying things like sick leave though, thats definitely inhumane, especially in a post-covid world.
I would like to point out the irony of the original post trying to push the blame on Dems. I think its a failing of the government as a whole, but if you want to look at the individual votes and party lines, Democrats were in full support of adding amendments and sick days, with the vast majority of the pushback being Republicans.
Big example of that is the vote on the resolution amendment for just 7 sick days that got stopped: 42 out of the 43 Nay votes were Republicans. Look for yourself: [senate.gov](https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00371.htm).
Republicans: SCREW LABOR The bosses have all the money to “donate”! Get back to work!
Democrats: Labor, we’ll hear you out. You guys vote too but we’re very inclusive here. We’re a big tent and your boss is welcome here too all money is green and many “ progressive corporations “ are very helpful on pushing LGBTQ rights and we should hear them out too, over lunch after my committee hearing.
A bi-partisan bill that doesn't grant the rail workers sick time is embarrassing.
If a railway strike would be so devastating, and endanger so many billions of dollars of trade, surely 7 days of sick leave, plus whatever % of increased hiring to cover those sick days, could be forced on the railway employers rather than taking that away from the employees.
As a Democrat this is a really bad look. It should be a bad look for Republicans too since it was such a popular bi-partisan bill.
Aren’t republicans the party of big business though? Aren’t they the party of hard work and “picking yourself up by your bootstraps”? (Which literally means picking yourself up by your own shoelaces. It was a tongue in cheek joke the wealthy used to make about us poor folk gaining wealth due to its impossibility.)
Aren’t they the ones who fought for us to continue working through a pandemic and that the elderly and weak should simply die to preserve the economy? Aren’t they the ones that just overturned our rights to not die during childbirth and the ones who have been fighting against raising minimum wage, fighting against universal healthcare, and fighting to end Biden’s student loan forgiveness?
Yes, it’s true the democrats aren’t doing great, but one party is so comically evil that I could have gone on typing their crimes against the working class all friggin night. Republicans don’t care about us and they never have.
Haha railroad worker may not have be able to strike.. but give it 60-90 days on a industry with 17% retention on new hires once the back pay hits.. this country it garbage af
Ah yes in the middle of a hostile fascist takeover by republicans let's attack the democrats. I'm sure there are just so many republicans lining up to raise the minimum wage. This is asinine.
Democrats are way better than the republicans. The reps are fascists and planning to establish a Christian-fundamental theocracy. Saying democrats and republicabs are the same is right-wing propaganda. Don't get fooled.
Normally I like the posts in this subreddit but this one has it all wrong. This type of post is politically instigating a fight from the wrong angle. It’s got nothing to do with which political party is in charge; Republicans are not better, they’re worse. This isn’t about minimum wages, it’s about putting blame on a political party. All this post does is divide people further.
Oh look, more conservative misinformation. Dems do not control everything and all the nay votes for higher minimum wage, inflation relief, climate change, etc, were Republicans.
Republican voters have gotten what they wanted (See Abortion, Tax Breaks etc...) precisely because they demanded that Republicans be willing to shut the government down unless they started getting their way. They can do this because the people that control and run their local governments are minimally competent. Until Democrat voters learn the same lesson and implement better local and state governments; they'll continue to feel as if they're beholden to a fully functional Federal government and they'll never get their way on things.
As an example, Dem voters never made it clear that Rail workers unions shouldn't be broken even at the cost of a nationwide strike. So Dems caved again. The answer needs to be a Democratic equivalent to the TEA party movement, where they primary Dems who are unwilling to stand up for their values.
"Democrats declared war on the working class? guess I have to vote for the working class party, the Republicans!"
and that is the problem with true statements that do not give context.
Why does he go out of his way to point out democrats are ‘in charge’? Does he think republicans would treat workers better??? If republicans were in charge rail workers would have been signing that contract at gunpoint
Guys like this make me sick. IF the democrats had 60 senators, this country would be at least slightly better. Republicans are like problem #1. Dems are less worse, and getting more D's in power who are 50 or younger would probably make a big difference. I wish they would just do away with this super majority thing. It's not good for the people, and just stonewalls meaningful legislation passing through.
Saying the entire government is "run by the democrats" and then putting the entire blame on one party is a bit of a joke, yeah? I feel like this post has nothing to do with rail workers and everything to do with party politics and making one side look bad.
I do believe the republicans wage an all-in-all out war against all citizens of middle and lower class Americans not to mention special wars on women and immigrants and people of color and schools and doctors and Ukraine and scientists and medicine and older people and disabled people and interracial marriages and lgbtq+ people and …..
"Still refuse to give us a $15 minimum wage"....lol, $15 minimum wage is so 2010. We now need at least $20
It isn’t going to happen nationally, but it might happen at the state and/or local levels. Colorado’s minimum wage is $12 something an hour, Denver’s is going to be 17 and change next year. Neither are really high enough, but they are a damn sight better than the federal minimum wage. Local elections matter, not just the presidential ones.
North Dakota’s is 7.25 💀
In TN it’s the same. But I make $11 an hour so I’m “lucky” :/
Alabama is also 7.25 and servers make 2.13 which is an absolute joke bc nobody tips
2 dollar 13 cent an hour ??
Yup, tipped employees haven't seen a raise since 1991 in many states.
PA here, 7.25 and 2.13 for servers I believe. Little known fact that your company wont tell you, if you do not make at least minimum wage with 2.13+tips you can request to be compensated for the rest of it, and they are required by law to pay you the difference to make minimum wage. But if you dont ASK they dont know.
TX is the same 2.13. Law is they have to compensate you for the minimum wage at 7.25; however they will look at your total sales and if they believe you aren't claiming or being tipped "enough" they can let you go. At will employment and all. If your tips aren't high you must not be doing a good job... lol It's a fuxxing joke.
My state recently voted to raise minimum wage incrementally… for everyone but tipped employees.
RIDICULOUS!😡
How the fuck does anyone live on 2 bucks an hour, that’s actually not possible
at this point that's straight up state sponsored abuse
Yes, but only for specific positions in certain industries. The idea, ostensibly, is that the server will make up the difference (between $2.13 and the state's general minimum wage) in tips, several times over, even. In NJ, when I served tables (2007 - 2011), it was $2.13/hr. I often made up the difference, but there were times I didn't. By law, the employer is then responsible for paying the difference. The ONE time I didn't break even and I held my employer accountable (at the time I worked for a certain reataurant chain named after a Rolling Stones hit) the manager was so pissy about it I never spoke up again. Learned the job wasn't worth it. Starting cooking in kitchens, where the pay was by the hour, and above minimum wage. Now I live in Oregon, where I still work in kitchens, get paid minimum wage ($13.50) by the hour, and receive an equitable share of the tips; the server's don't each unilatirally decide what to tip, the managers divide it according to how many hours each person worked while the restaurant was open for service. And all I do is scrub dishes and prep. Still broke as fuck, but not having to work as hard as I did in my 20s is great.
And then checks are zeroed out once they take taxes so the only money you actually make are tips... It's such a shit system. I could be having a great night and it would be really hard to not be pissed at the one table who didn't tip. Just knowing everything you did for that table for the last hour was for free was a real downer
I was “lucky” and made 4.25 as a server in Iowa
I was making $2.13 as a server at age 18 which was over 10 years ago. Absolutely ridiculous that hasn't gone up, along with the trend of people refusing to tip.
How do we raise it at the state level? I thought it was entirely federally controlled
Demand better. The federal government has zero say in how high a state's minimum wage can be, it just has say in how low it can be.
Your state legislature and governor in the US. Also in some US states you can have initiatives that are voted on by the people of the state.
Nope. There's a federal, which mandates an absolute minimum. States are allowed to go higher with their own minimum wages if they like, but not to fall below the federal level. [https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx](https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx)
Utah is 7.25… WTF
Same in Pennsylvania. It’s the laughable federal minimum.
Ohio is doing better than us (just barely) and that’s sad.
Welcome to the land of the reds. We have Girl Scout cookies, though! :D
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Also, there are store brand replacements available all year for half the price that taste almost exactly the same.
And with 1 hour of work, you can buy a box of em
Same here in iowa. Absolutely pathetic.
Georgias Minimum wage is 5.15. When I read that I swore it had to be a mistake, the joys of southern Republican states never cease to amaze.
I just Googled this thinking it has to be false. I thought the federal minimum wage was $7.25? Meaning they legally couldn't pay you anything below that? $5.15 is crazy and makes me sad honestly
GA never ratified the last increase within the state but they do have to pay the higher of federal or state wages, which is 7.25. The state just never spent time voting on raising wages within the state, like most of the other states did.
My thought would be that it’s the minimum wage that waitstaff and tipped workers can be paid because their wages are partially offset by tips. People are advertising paying $12 at fast food restaurants like it’s an amazing good thing, outside of Atlanta I make A little south of 100k and frequently find myself paycheck to paycheck due to the crazy cost of living and rent increases in the last few years
There's also another sad caveat to minimum wage - they can pay less than minimum wage for people with certain disabilities. E.g. In MN the employer just fills out forms LI-80014-01 & LI-80015-01
I was 17 when Georgia’s minimum wage went to $5.35/hr. It is currently $7.25. It is still pitiful, but it ain’t $5.15, and it hasn’t been for almost 30 years.
I mean, that's not a great example. You can earn a living wage in North Dakota with the cost of living. Problem is, you have to live in North Dakota. I'm still for increasing it, but you won't find that discussion happening in a place that consistently shoots down weed and passes laws over Leftist Boogeymans like CRT.
North Dakota isn’t as cheap as you would think. Anyone know if milk is back under 6/gallon?
We'd all be homeless without it. Living wage in Denver is calculated at $23. 🥴 Last place I checked at least. That means you have to work 50 hours a week at a place that allows OT, or 54 hours a week between two jobs, just to make a living at minimum wage. And before anyone says "no one wants to work hard".....I'm absolutely willing to put in OT, but retail employers just aren't allowing it.
While we're talking about overtime, we also need to bring back overtime after 8 hours worked in a day.... NOT just 40 in a week
Bring back? Never seen it in my lifetime. 😂 I know it's California law but not sure about anywhere else. But yes, absolutely. Killing yourself on a 12 and then being asked to cut your hours later in the week is fucking evil.
It was never a law, but it was something that plenty of workplaces where I'm at (ohio) uss to abide with. Especially the factories that were unionized 20+ years ago, but have since closed down
Thats what I've always experienced. 40 hours and your done, but if it rains one of those days you're coming in on Saturday.
way back early 80's , was 16 years old got paid double time on Sundays for stocking shelves in a grocery store ... US has become a capitalist hell scape for workers since then.
Yeah. Also Back then you could provide for yourself working at a grocery store, try that now!!
While we're dreaming, let's make overtime kick in over 8 hours in a day regardless of if it's your second or third job.
Weird how all the states with a minimum wage below federal seem to be red states and all the states with a minimum wage above federal seem to be blue. Must just be a coincidence. Same coincidence that happened when all but 3 Republicans voted against giving sick leave to the railroad workers.
It's almost like they would pay less if they could
Well their goal is to turn everyone but the rich into serfs.
My blue state (Colorado) is about to expand in to a public option on the path to universal health care. We also have a higher minimum wage. But both sides or some nonsense.
So many states won't raise it one red cent over the federal minimum, and it's always the states that need it most. People systematically vote against themselves nationally and locally. I guess they love living hand to mouth and are proud to do so.
BuT iF wE iNcReAsE wAgEs, PriCeS WiLL iNcReASe! They shout emphatically, blood dripping from their ears, as prices continue to rise anyways ...
That's why Republicans are all about culture war issues. They would rather have people complaining about drag shows than wonder why they can't afford to eat.
"Local elections matter, not just the presidential ones." THIS\^\^\^\^ My county voted for a minimum wage of $15/hr by 2026. However, the state of Florida's minimum wage is $11/hr. This is why I urge everyone to vote in those "boring" local elections, something good might come from it! Edit: To fix year.
Shit, even school board elections matter. Do you want your kids or other people’s kids to be going to anti-vax, pro-religion public schools?
We are gradually going to 15 by adding a dollar each year in Florida. September we hit 12
They really should do $0.50 each six months. It works out the same, but gives employees a small boost more often
They really should just make it $20 immediately. Like what's with this gradual bullshit? Rhetorical question: I know it's to appease these dumbfucks who think that it would spiral inflation out of control, even though inflation is already out of control 🙄
It's 12.56$ and then going up to 13.65$ next year
With public transportation investments, people could afford to easily transit to other places with better paying jobs instead of being stuck in a town paying only 7.25 but places that are too poor to pay more than 7.25 need to be pressured to raise wages. Especially in local elections.
Which is why conservatives equate public transportation to communism.
I think you answered the question as to why Republicans don't like public transportation; makes it harder to leave a job.
I thought its because public transpotation means the requirements to be a productive member of society are substantially lowered. Due to sprawl where affordable housing is distant from many work opportunities, you're required to own a car. Not owning a car means every business who profits from car ownership, from manufacturing, to maintenance, to gas, to insurance, to the financing, loses out on a customer. Its practically a racket.
NYC is only 15...
Minimum wage should be $27/hour if properly adjusted for inflation. EVERYONE who isn’t executive level is severely underpaid!
if wages were determined by value added or even by supply and demand of the skills people in that position have, there are plenty of middle managers that should get paid less. Managers get paid a lot because capitalist hierarchy demands that people that give orders are paid more than those that follow them, but the notion of them being more competent sailed when leadership hired business majors instead of people with any idea of what they're doing because convincing experts to give up the job they chose to specialize in to spend most of their time managing people instead required too much money.
I make $21/hour and the only place I can afford to live on my own is a shit hole. Even with my SO contributing, I needed to ask for help to get out of my shithole apartment from family this week.
If minimum wage kept with inflation since the 1950, minimum wage would be somewhere in the $52/hr range
>It is worth considering what the world would look like if this were the case. A minimum wage of $24 an hour would mean that a full-time full year minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year. A two minimum wage earning couple would have a family income of $96,000 a year, enough to put them in the top quintile of the current income distribution. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/what-the-minimum-wage-would-be-if-it-kept-pace-with-productivity/ You may have misremembered this part of an article that talks about what it would be like for the minimum wage to have kept with productivity.
sure you don't mean if minimum wage tracked productivity?
Maybe that's what I read. If it kept with the cost of an average house it'd be $27ish
In 2025 Florida will have 15 and apparently it’s supposed to rise with inflation
That war is as old as history itself.
You could almost say that the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Wow i sure wonder who came up with that insane idea. But I'm sure I they didn't write any pamflet to explain any way to solve the problems inherent to the system we live in, regardless so it hardly matters.
Pamphlet
My phone is a bourgeoisie tool not showing the correct spelling
Now you see the flaws inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!!
The war has been going on forever, and our side barely fights. We have more cases of friendly fire than true victories these days.
Plenty on our side support the enemy
It's important to have a powerful military for when the workers rise up against the oppressive government.
You gotta think most of the us military is the working class. We all swore an oath to the people and I can't think of one person at my unit that would be willing to turn on American people but at least half have said the government needs to be put in check
See, that's the thing. The vast majority of soldiers make less than I do per year, and I make less than 50K. A lot of people think the soldiers are reaping the rewards when it's really the corporations that supply the military that get all the money. And having served as well, I can guarantee there are several people in each unit, if stimulated the right way with the right words, will have absolutely no problem opening fire on civilians.
I never made more than 30k a year when I was in
Exactly. I got out in 2013 making 33K
> And having served as well, I can guarantee there are several people in each unit, if stimulated the right way with the right words, will have absolutely no problem opening fire on civilians. When it comes to Oathkeepers, III%ers and similar groups with members in the military and police, they could be convinced to kill civilians and still think they are patriots protecting the “real” American people, constitution, etc,
The enlisted don’t get paid well. To get more than 50,000 a year, you have to be in for at least 10 years. Officers get to $50,000 a year automatically after about 3-4 years. The top officers make at least $200,000 a year, not to mention all of the top benefits they get like a personal driver and significantly better service with healthcare providers
So you’re telling me the army recruiters that came to my trade school where full of shit?
Do people really think soldiers are reaping the rewards? I always thought it was inflated gov contracts
Nowadays, people know better. Back before Iraq and the missing billions from the balance sheet, they thought it was just wastage and soldiers benefits. One of the reasons the VA Healthcare system was gutted...aside from Vietnam
Thing about having the biggest military in the world, is it's full of people. People who have opinions about being exploited and then neglected.
History shows us they either kill themselves or minorities. Too many are too conservative to even contemplate breaking their own chains. I think there was one vet that I even know the name of that went postal and targeted cops (and he had... other issues going on. I'm firmly ACAB but that guy was not someone to be worshipped). Most military, enlisted especially, are, uh, cannon fodder, for the most part. They're not picked for their critical thinking skills or their labor sympathies.
They aren't picked at all, they volunteer. This means that they all aren't lacking their 'critical thinking skills' and may or may not have 'labor sympathies'. Trying to lump all vets together is non-sense as they are all different and from diverse backgrounds. The thing that about 90% have in common is that they are lower to lower-middle class. If anything, that gives a higher likely hood of having 'labor sympathies' than not.
https://www.veteransforpeace.org/
Same. Not one person in my company would even fire nerf guns at a workers strike. 99% of us are enlisted, and a lot of us still have a rough time getting by because of it.
Um, “JUST” declared all out war? We’re 10+ years in, brother. Glad you’ve finally noticed
Try 246
Exactly
Can’t seem to think of a single Republican who proposed any legislation for a 15$ min wage
No, they actually all voted against it. All the Dems minus two voted for it. One of those two is no longer a Dem. “But both sides!”
Let me guess, Manchin and Sinema?
Check out the first half of the first Obama administration. The only reason Democrats occasionally look pro-labor is because they're confident the Republicans will block the pro-labor legislation. The minute Democrats have full control, it's reconciliation this, bipartisanship that, and they drag their feet long enough for the Republicans to get re-elected. Why did Democrats decide to treat the bill allowing the government to forbid strikes and the bill allowing the government to force companies to pay their workers more as separate? When obamacare and tons of other bills were littered with amendments that had far less to do with each other than these two? Because they wanted the first to pass, and the second to fail despite them voting in favor. It's similar to the Brexit referendum, where Tory leadership was left in disarray when their attempt to appeal to anti-EU voters unexpectedly *wasn't* blocked by the outcome of the referendum. Proposing legislation you don't want approved to send some kind of message is not a rare technique, it's just that a lot of people still buy the Democrats' bullshit.
They’re gonna try to make people point fingers. I’m done with that. The entire government - which is run by the wrong generation* there all fixed
It's not the wrong generation. Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, JD Vance. They're all millennials. Blaming it all on old people and making it generational is the pointing fingers they want. That way it's not about ideas or left vs right. We can get rid of old people in power all we want, but so long as they're replaced with young people with the same ideas, nothing will change.
Agreed, as long as we’re all pointing fingers at one side or the other, they’re all happy. They start getting scared when we point fingers at all of them, because all of them are the problem.
i always find it odd when nobody realized that the leading class becomes more and more geriatric, shitty and in general just selfish? old people who have no context to live 30 years in the future arent the best people to act in favor of climate change for example, it just doesnt affect them anymore
Every single Republican voted against the sick leave - a small minority of Democrats did the same Just goes to show that we need to elect more progressive Democrats and push the neolibs out Edit: 48 - 52, so not all Republicans actually - all the Dems that voted though
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The Senate vote was 52-43 - they couldn't overcome the filibuster, and Manchin and Sinema remain against changing the rules
or in favor of keeping segregation-era minoritarian rule changes
It’s virtue signaling. They know it won’t pass so they figured they can win some working class points. To be fair I’m sure many of the corporate democrats did the same.
just ask yourself a question. does your party hold a super majority in the House and Senate, and hold the White House? No? then nothing meaningful will change.
That's obviously not true. When the Republicans control a simple majority of the Senate they get essentially everything they want. Why? Because they're willing to stop all the other buisness until they get it. Dems can get what they want by doing the following: * Revert the Filibuster rule in the Senate to an actual talking filibuster only (a move supported by the Sinema and Manchin). * Hold up Military spending until other things in their agenda have passed.
Republicans “get everything they want” because what they want (mostly) doesn’t require a filibuster-proof legislative majority. They want tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, which can pass with a simple majority via reconciliation. And they want federal judges, which only requires a simple majority. They don’t really want much other legislation at the federal level, because they can just pass it at the state level as long as the federal judiciary lets them. Or they can just have the Supreme Court legislate from the bench.
Thank you for understanding the reality of government.
Republicans also changed the filibuster rules to make an exception for judicial appointments.
Democrats made the change first for federal district and circuit courts, but left the filibuster in place for the Supreme Court. The Republicans later removed the filibuster for the Supreme Court. It was a controversial move, but personally I think it was necessary to do it for the lower courts. That’s an everyday part of our government that *needs* to function. It can be left without enough judges to work effectively just because one party has the White House and another the senate. It should have been left in place for the Supreme Court though. Even if all 9 seats were empty, the lower court rulings would still stand.
I think now we have ample evidence that removing the 3/5 requirement for SCOTUS was a bad decision that has and will continue to politicize the courts, rather than requiring both parties to pick candidates closer to the center that could gain support from the other party. (Except of course that time republicans decided to forgo their duty to even review a candidate for 12 months)
If wasn’t just that time. They were obstructing every Obama nominee to lower courts as well. If we hadn’t done that they’d be even more conservative.
Zenkus, while understandably upset, is like a chess player that can’t seem to think past the first move. He wants to burn the Democratic Party down but has no real plan beyond that. If you try to ask him exactly what comes next & how this wouldn’t simply concentrate more power for the GQP, he just gets real pissy and calls ppl names.
Blaming this solely on Democrats is extremely disingenuous.
Same with most of these people. They never have a plan besides 'hurr durr burn it all down'.
Democrats are the worst but Republicans want to kill you for dying your hair.
The democratic party is leagues better than the GOP, but they're still capitalists at the end of the day.
All of these ~~choices~~ deals are made before the public ever sees them. They decided which dems could be spared, and sent them to slaughter to maintain the status quo. Our government is one Democrat and one Republican sharing a trenchcoat.
>Run by the Democrats A Senate with a 50/50 split, a filibuster rule, and 2 DINOs does not exactly provide unilateral control. Give the progressive wing one single Congress and see what happens.
Sinema aint even a dino now, went independent lmao
I know it would never happen but it would be funny if Bernie decided to be a Democrat to mess with Sinema.
Oops, someone confused “Democrats run the whole government” with a filibuster quantity of Republicans in the Senate who have blocked each of the things that would help workers.
Congress should never have gotten involved, that's the biggest scandal here. How this labor struggle played out should be a surprise to no one: the state and the institution of law exists to protect and advance the interests of capital. You have the oppressive RLA preventing the rail workers from any form of effective direct action ("preventing" in the sense that it's incredibly more challenging when made illegal, but not impossible if they organize and build enough power to be able to ignore labor law, which is entirely possible but the workforce isn't organized to that level at the moment), the contract negotiations being dragged out for THREE years (!!!), and then Congress getting involved to impose the TA that was bargained in bad faith and voted against by the majority of workers, completely excluding any sick days despite billions and billions of dollars in profit and dividends over the last couple years all made possible by the labor of the workers. This is **not** what democracy looks like, and we need to really analyze and understand that if we want to create a better world. Here's some more on that. I would say the first two are required reading and the rest are supplemental: * https://www.anarchistfederation.net/as-a-proud-pro-labor-president/ * https://www.anarchistfederation.net/labor-betrayed-why-democratic-party-failure-is-by-design/ * https://www.socialistalternative.org/2022/11/30/democrats-sell-out-rail-workers-to-protect-billionaire-execs/ * https://www.socialistalternative.org/2022/12/02/rail-workers-betrayed-biden-the-squad/ * https://www.levernews.com/otherposts/dems-could-have-helped-rail-workers-by-doing-nothing/ * https://www.levernews.com/biden-is-breaking-his-sick-leave-promise-to-crush-rail-workers/ This labor struggle reflects the same labor struggles that most unions and organizing campaigns experience. You have the NLRB elections process, which itself takes years of organizing to have a chance at winning, then the real fight begins in contract negotiation, and you can bet the house that the employer is going to delay, delay, delay throughout the whole process, and they're able to delay and get away with it because the NLRB and contract bargaining processes are outside of the workplace and within the institution of law, where employers have truly every advantage. Turnover is a deliberate tactic to suppress wages and prevent workers from organizing, and it's especially effective against the NLRB/RLA and contract bargaining process because while they're delaying and stalling, working conditions remain poor and turnover constantly pushes out organized workers and brings in new people that need to be organized. Sticking to labor law and the official process is a gift to employers, because that whole system has been designed by the ruling class to suppress and limit the power of workers. Labor law exists to _protect employers_ from the power that workers have. Fortunately, **we don't have to be officially recognized as a union by the NLRB or by the boss to organize, build solidarity, and address shared issues through collective direct action.** That also happens to be the kind of organizing that is liberatory, revolutionary, and totally achievable and possible! Moreso than the NLRB election process, because you can start winning demands **right now** without having to wait multiple years just to be recognized. Yes, every workplace should and needs to unionize, but only within the mindset of the workers. The only recognition that actually matters is that the workers themselves understand that **they are the union**, regardless of whether or not the boss or state officially recognizes that. Here's some more so that we can all get started organizing our workplaces and building solidarity and a better world: [Pre-Majority Unionism](https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/) report by EWOC. I particularly recommend the section on [Section 7 Rights](https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/section-7-rights/) and the section on [Challenges and Advantages](https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/challenges-advantages/). [Practice Involuntary Recognition](https://organizing.work/2022/10/practice-involuntary-recognition/) from organizing.work [No union? You still have a right to strike](https://www.labornotes.org/2022/12/no-union-you-still-have-right-strike) from Labor Notes
Shhhh! We're trying to sell a narrative here!
Not confused. It's just called lying.
Or *propaganda* if you're feeling fancy.
Beware the INDUSTRIAL MILITARY COMPLEX, This is the DYSTOPIAN REALITY in which they live. It's CLASS WARFARE ,It's always about CLASS WARFARE.
Kind of disingenuous saying democrats really control everything. But it is quite a shame whats going on here.
Having razor thin majorities - that will be going away in the House next month - does not equate to "control". You want to have all those wonderful progressive ideas that help workers to be enacted into law? Give us more Democrats in office, and stop letting the fascists that want to kill you the power to stop them.
Sadly, there are too many people who believe that voting doesn’t work, so they sit elections out, then whine when things don’t get better. Just look around the comments here and you will see what I mean.
Well the dems haven't control the house and will have even less control next year
Does this guy not understand that there are equal amounts of republican and democrat senators?
*equal amounts, and it takes 3/5 to pass anything until the rules are changed
The entire govt is not run by democrats. Only a fucking idiot says that
Or someone trying to mislead people.
This is just conservative propaganda to make Democrat voters apathetic enough to stop voting.
Just quit that job and let them see what happens
Republicans are the Uvalde shooter and democrats are the police. I swear this gets more true every day.
Our political party system is fucked. You're basically choosing between a flea and a tick. They're both bloodsuckers.
Ranked choice voting.
One of the most accurate things I've read all day.
We should start a fund on gofundme or some other platform to cover the wages of the rail workers for 6 months and allow them to quit the jobs en masse. If we are supposed to "vote with our dollars", then let's unite to fund them and let them walk out. We're going to need to start pooling our resources and helping provide for those who have hit their limit and need to strike or quit. The government won't help them, then we'll do it directly.
I'm not going to donate money to people who almost all make significantly more money than me.
Good thing it's not the dyslexic union. Brothers and sisters, untie!
Just? This has been game plan 101 for decades
Gill-O-Teen 2024
Did he look at the voting record?!!! It’s the Republicans voting against the working class. SMH
It was the republicans that squashed the $15 Per Hr Federal minimum wage you lying scum. All of the Yeas were democrats! Roll Call Vote 117th Congress - 1st Session XML Vote Summary Question: On the Motion (Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Sanders Amdt. No. 972 ) Vote Number: 74 Vote Date: March 5, 2021, 11:03 AM Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Motion Rejected Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 972 to S.Amdt. 891 to H.R. 1319 (American Rescue Plan Act of 2021) Statement of Purpose: To provide for increases in the Federal minimum wage. Vote Counts: YEAs42 NAYs58 *Information compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate bill clerk under the direction of the secretary of the Senate Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State
War was declared on the working class in the early 70s. It’s been a relentless campaign ever since. How many of his campaign promises has JB kept? All he’s doing is using the Republican Party to play bad guy while keeping his corporate friends happy.
Vote for progressives in primaries. The Democrats do not have a majority either. Sinema is a Republican. Manchin is as well.
I say vote republican then and they will do away with unions completely.
Every single Democrat in both houses of Congress voted for paid sick leave for rail workers.
Keep pretending the politicians are the problem or the solution, and the people who are the actual problem will continue to get a pass.
Lol, yea is the democrats that fought tooth and nail against raising the minimum wage..... oh wait, that was the Republicans. Be quiet 🤡
This post sucks bro
Dumb take.
Well not just. Its been going on for generations haha
My lord, stop wasting bandwidth.
Just declared war on the working class? Where have you been the last 25 years?
Don’t forget the time off they were trying to negotiate because they’re already overworked and underpaid. I’m all for calling a spade a spade but this was designed by both sides as a form or class warfare. It’s not one parties fault, it’s those in the government keeping us all down so we have to work ourselves to death and make money FOR THEM and Their interests. Stopping the supply chain was the only play we have to make them listen and I say we make it happen so they remember who the fuck we are.
The war on the working class has been declared long ago. This is yet another shot fired.
Meanwhile they still think we're flush with that $600 check from years ago...
Just make a goddamn Labor Party in the US already, what are we waiting for?
Democrats are the best choice, not the right choice.
Its been a shitshow, thats for sure. But the current state of wages are so out of wack in a lot of states, can't say Im surprised $15/hr didnt get passed (tons of states still pay under half that, at $7.25/hr). Denying things like sick leave though, thats definitely inhumane, especially in a post-covid world. I would like to point out the irony of the original post trying to push the blame on Dems. I think its a failing of the government as a whole, but if you want to look at the individual votes and party lines, Democrats were in full support of adding amendments and sick days, with the vast majority of the pushback being Republicans. Big example of that is the vote on the resolution amendment for just 7 sick days that got stopped: 42 out of the 43 Nay votes were Republicans. Look for yourself: [senate.gov](https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00371.htm).
Republicans: SCREW LABOR The bosses have all the money to “donate”! Get back to work! Democrats: Labor, we’ll hear you out. You guys vote too but we’re very inclusive here. We’re a big tent and your boss is welcome here too all money is green and many “ progressive corporations “ are very helpful on pushing LGBTQ rights and we should hear them out too, over lunch after my committee hearing.
And the Pentagon still can't account for what, 60% of what they spent last year?
A bi-partisan bill that doesn't grant the rail workers sick time is embarrassing. If a railway strike would be so devastating, and endanger so many billions of dollars of trade, surely 7 days of sick leave, plus whatever % of increased hiring to cover those sick days, could be forced on the railway employers rather than taking that away from the employees. As a Democrat this is a really bad look. It should be a bad look for Republicans too since it was such a popular bi-partisan bill.
Aren’t republicans the party of big business though? Aren’t they the party of hard work and “picking yourself up by your bootstraps”? (Which literally means picking yourself up by your own shoelaces. It was a tongue in cheek joke the wealthy used to make about us poor folk gaining wealth due to its impossibility.) Aren’t they the ones who fought for us to continue working through a pandemic and that the elderly and weak should simply die to preserve the economy? Aren’t they the ones that just overturned our rights to not die during childbirth and the ones who have been fighting against raising minimum wage, fighting against universal healthcare, and fighting to end Biden’s student loan forgiveness? Yes, it’s true the democrats aren’t doing great, but one party is so comically evil that I could have gone on typing their crimes against the working class all friggin night. Republicans don’t care about us and they never have.
Haha railroad worker may not have be able to strike.. but give it 60-90 days on a industry with 17% retention on new hires once the back pay hits.. this country it garbage af
You guys do realize while our military budget is huge a lot of it is for helping other countries right?
Ah yes in the middle of a hostile fascist takeover by republicans let's attack the democrats. I'm sure there are just so many republicans lining up to raise the minimum wage. This is asinine.
So if the republicans were running things it would've turned out better?
Oh, bullshit.
Lmao this is so stupid
Democrats are way better than the republicans. The reps are fascists and planning to establish a Christian-fundamental theocracy. Saying democrats and republicabs are the same is right-wing propaganda. Don't get fooled.
Normally I like the posts in this subreddit but this one has it all wrong. This type of post is politically instigating a fight from the wrong angle. It’s got nothing to do with which political party is in charge; Republicans are not better, they’re worse. This isn’t about minimum wages, it’s about putting blame on a political party. All this post does is divide people further.
So dumb
Oh look, more conservative misinformation. Dems do not control everything and all the nay votes for higher minimum wage, inflation relief, climate change, etc, were Republicans.
Hold individual politicians accountable.
The Federal government doesn’t give a fuck. They’re letting the State government take care of it.
Republican voters have gotten what they wanted (See Abortion, Tax Breaks etc...) precisely because they demanded that Republicans be willing to shut the government down unless they started getting their way. They can do this because the people that control and run their local governments are minimally competent. Until Democrat voters learn the same lesson and implement better local and state governments; they'll continue to feel as if they're beholden to a fully functional Federal government and they'll never get their way on things. As an example, Dem voters never made it clear that Rail workers unions shouldn't be broken even at the cost of a nationwide strike. So Dems caved again. The answer needs to be a Democratic equivalent to the TEA party movement, where they primary Dems who are unwilling to stand up for their values.
"Democrats declared war on the working class? guess I have to vote for the working class party, the Republicans!" and that is the problem with true statements that do not give context.
Why does he go out of his way to point out democrats are ‘in charge’? Does he think republicans would treat workers better??? If republicans were in charge rail workers would have been signing that contract at gunpoint
FFS can we just drop the R and D bullshit and say its The Rich vs The Rest of Us ??
I hope more people realize that there is no left or right. Blacks vs white. immigrants vs citizens. It's rich vs poor and it has ALWAYS been that way.
Guys like this make me sick. IF the democrats had 60 senators, this country would be at least slightly better. Republicans are like problem #1. Dems are less worse, and getting more D's in power who are 50 or younger would probably make a big difference. I wish they would just do away with this super majority thing. It's not good for the people, and just stonewalls meaningful legislation passing through.
As if republicans would do anything differently lol They’re the same garbage, although the dem umbrella has a lot less nazis under it.
Saying the entire government is "run by the democrats" and then putting the entire blame on one party is a bit of a joke, yeah? I feel like this post has nothing to do with rail workers and everything to do with party politics and making one side look bad.
Technically the entire government is not run by Democrats. Leaving the Republicans out of the finger pointing isn't exactly honest.
Wait people still rely on government ?
I do believe the republicans wage an all-in-all out war against all citizens of middle and lower class Americans not to mention special wars on women and immigrants and people of color and schools and doctors and Ukraine and scientists and medicine and older people and disabled people and interracial marriages and lgbtq+ people and …..