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- Brady Bunch
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Wolf to sign executive order raising minimum wage for certain workers
I'm not sure how good it is to raise the minimum wage of state workers and contractors when this years budget still hasn't been done.
Plus I don't think he will get any sympathy from management employees who didn't receive an increase this year when union workers did (same tactics used by Governor Rendell)
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Re: Wolf to sign executive order raising minimum wage for certain workers
Wolf benefits from the fact that Pennsylvania doesn't have a recall process. He would be gone by now if we did. Worst governor ever, by far. And I thought Rendell and Corbett were bad.
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Re: Wolf to sign executive order raising minimum wage for certain workers
How many people are working for the State that are making $7.25 per hour and what jobs are they?
Apparently this will apply to some state contractors, again how many and what are they doing?
This really sounds like theater to fill a campaign promise. We are no closer to completing last years budget and it seems the gap between the Governor and State legislators is just getting wider by the week.
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Re: Wolf to sign executive order raising minimum wage for certain workers
The gap is what is wrong with current politics both locally and nationally.
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Re: Wolf to sign executive order raising minimum wage for certain workers
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 seems reasonable to me. If someone is employed full-time, that usually means they are working about 2000 hrs/yr. I get that figure by multiplying 40 hrs/week x 50 weeks/yr.
If that's the case, then 10 bucks/hr comes to about $20,000/yr. I think that's reasonable compared to a gross income of around $14,500 at the current minimum.
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Re: Wolf to sign executive order raising minimum wage for certain workers
Contractors working on PA publically funded jobs have their wages controlled by prevailing wage laws. Those wages are substantially more than minimum wage, $7.25, or $10.25 per hour. They are higher than wages paid by companies on non-government jobs and are the main reason government/publically funded projects are over budget, higher cost, and behind schedule. The cost of those jobs also are one reason for increased taxes like property taxes due to cost of public school projects.
If you are concerned with the effect of increased wages on taxpayers, I would suggest you write your state legislators and urge them to repeal all prevailing wage laws in the state.
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Re: Wolf to sign executive order raising minimum wage for certain workers
When I saw the story, I was trying to figure out how many employees or contractors would be affected by this.
I know the state contracts for security guards and janitorial service for some buildings, and from what I know those services go to the lowest bidders. So there might be some of those employees who might receive a raise.
I think Common is right, this is more of a PR stunt than having an actual impact and is a way to try and put pressure on the general assembly to increase the minimum wage for the entire state.
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Re: Wolf to sign executive order raising minimum wage for certain workers
The following from the Pennlive article about the raise of the minimum wage that caught my eye. The last raise of the minimum wage in Pa was in 2009.
If Pennsylvania set its rate at that level immediately, it would have the nation's highest statewide minimum wage, according to information from the National Conference of State Legislatures.According to an administration source, 1.2 million Pennsylvania workers – the majority are working adults – currently earn the minimum wage.
Boosting their hourly pay to $10.15 would boost the state's economy by $60 million from their increased purchasing power.
A full-time year-round worker earning $7.25 an hour earns less than the poverty threshold for a family of two. "The governor has said no Pennsylvanian who works full-time should live in poverty, An increase in the minimum wage would lift people out of poverty," the administration source said.
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Re: Wolf to sign executive order raising minimum wage for certain workers
I think the minimum wage increase is reasonable.
But the wage shouldn't be raised by executive order. It should be raised through the legislative process. And so we see another level of government that can't sit down, have a conversation, and work a solution out.
I just don't see how we can sustain our government, our commonwealth, or our country is people can't just sit down and agree on things.
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Re: Wolf to sign executive order raising minimum wage for certain workers
"I just don't see how we can sustain our government, our commonwealth, or our country is people can't just sit down and agree on things." -Lager
That's pretty much our problem in a nutshell, Lager.
No one can agree because no one is willing to compromise.
Discussion consists of loudly restating demands then blaming the other side for their unwillingness to 'work together'.
And you're right, it can't be sustained.
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