Category: Minimum Wage

We Told You! Democrats In THIS State Just Admitted Min. Wage Hike Was HUGE Mistake…

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Looks like Oregon is learning the hard way that the minimum wage issue is killer for their economy and not in a good way. They now realize they are going to lose 10’s of thousands of jobs because they rammed through legislation forcing the market to hike wages when it couldn’t bear it. That means […]

 

Gov’t Minimum Wage Hike Forces D.C. Store to Make TOUGH choice

Posted on by Frank Lea

People said it would happen. People said that if the minimum wage continues to creep too high, that prices will go up and the customer ultimately pays. It happened in D.C. where a bike shop owner was forced to raise prices to cover the surcharge of the new minimum wage. From AEI: A bike shop […]

 

WE TOLD YOU: McDonald’s SLAMS Minimum Wage Hike – Makes THIS Move…

Posted on by Just An American

The left has been pushing hard for minimum wage to raise for low-skilled workers…and despite all the folks with common sense telling them that it’s not going to work out the way they think it will – they continue to push. Now, McDonald’s has something to say about it…that sounds a little like… “WE TOLD […]

 

KFC opens a store run by robots

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

It just gets better and better for the minimum wage activists. I was cool with the automated kiosks that Wendy’s, McDonald’s and Carl’s Jr. are installing across the country. But I’m not sure I’m ready for robots completely running restaurants yet. KFC is taking it one step further. They just opened their first fully automated […]

 

Wendy’s to install self-serve kiosks to avoid $15 minimum wage

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Wow. Wendy’s must have already had this in their plans. They are installing self-service kiosks in their 6,000 restaurants across the nation… by year’s end. I guess they want to start amortizing the investment immediately. This will avoid the $15 an hour minimum wage and this will stop it in its tracks concerning Wendy’s at […]

 

Trump Advocating Minimum Wage Increase – More Than $15 [VIDEO]

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Well, that was fast. It took about 30 seconds after Cruz stepped out of the race for Trump to start flip-flopping all over the place. Previously, Trump had been against the minimum wage. Now, he’s all for it. Are you surprised? I’m not. This guy promises whatever sounds popular at the moment to get votes. […]

 

Will Minimum Wage Hikes Lead To A Droid Army In The U.S.?

Posted on by Sierra Marlee

If your answer is “I don’t know,”  let’s look at what China is doing in an attempt to boost their economy. The outlook for American jobs is grim. From Technology Review: Inside a large, windowless room in an electronics factory in south Shanghai, about 15 workers are eyeing a small robot arm with frustration. Near […]

 

Liberal UC Berkeley Pushes $15 Minimum Wage & Then Cuts 500 Jobs After Law Passes

Posted on by Greg Campbell

Capitalism is actually fairly easy to understand. It is a self-regulating system that goes haywire when social justice warriors mess with the basic market conditions. Though many liberals crusaded to bump the minimum wage to $15 an hour, they are now seeing the consequences as UC Berkeley has announced that 500 people are losing their […]

 

Liberals Push For A $15 Minimum Wage and McDonald’s is Responding By Doing This

Posted on by Greg Campbell

Free-market economics is fairly easy to understand. The market sets prices, but when government gets involved, it creates rippling effects that can have disastrous consequences. As economic morons crusade for $15 an hour for fast-food employees, they are condemning these employees to unemployment as they can easily be replaced by machines. Now, the McDonald’s of […]

 

VIDEO: Young Worker’s Response To $15 Minimum Wage Will Have You CHEERING

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

It certainly has me cheering. This young man is working at learning a skill so he can make $15 an hour. He didn’t demand anyone give him $15 an hour… he wants to earn it. I’m all for a fair wage for a job that the market will support. He doesn’t like the fact that […]

 

‘Fight For $15’ Moochers Invite Worker To Strike – Her Response Is EPIC [VIDEO]

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

A fast food worker in Austin, Texas stood her ground when a pack of “Fight for 15” protesters invaded the Taco Bell where she works. It turns out she has some common sense and a definite work ethic. When the protest leader asked her to join them on strike, she bluntly told him she had […]

 

BOOM! White Castle VP Just DODGED Minimum Wage Hike By Doing THIS!

Posted on by Greg Campbell

Free-market capitalism is easy to understand when one realizes that costs are not simply absorbed by business. Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour does not magically create wealth; it means that the cost of the product or service must skyrocket or, alternatively, business owners must reduce labor. White Castle burgers has decided to […]

 

HAH! Watch Neil Cavuto SMACK DOWN Liberal Moron Who Wants Minimum Wage Hike

Posted on by Just An American

Neil Cavuto has a way about him where he just states the facts…and there isn’t much more anyone can say about it after that. Super nice guy, yet somehow knocks leftist crazy ideals down like a warrior. Here in this video…we have EXHIBIT A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H7BDZZ-UAw From Louder with Crowder: But companies are scaling back their […]

 

Sonic CEO Makes SHOCKING Announcement – Blames Minimum Wage HIKE!

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Somehow in New York and California they didn’t get the brutal fact that when Seattle raised their minimum wage to $15 an hour, businesses bailed en masse, people were laid off and no one could afford to eat out anymore. In fact, it dominoes through the whole economic model. Seattle is now regretting their stupidity, […]

 

More Businesses to Flee this Bankrupt State… And Here’s Why

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Well, at least California is consistent. They are already bankrupt and are just charging forward to finish themselves off. Legislators and unions have now reached an agreement there to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. This will virtually guarantee a mass exodus of business from the state, depleting their already empty coffers. This […]

 

Carl’s Jr. CEO Responds To Liberals Demanding $15 Minimum Wage – They Are NOT Going To Like This…

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

I predicted just this. As fast food workers clamor for $15 an hour instead of letting the market dictate pay rate, CEOs and employers are now looking for alternatives. Carl’s Jr.’s CEO Andy Puzder is now looking at automated fast food. It actually makes sense and would not only increase profits, but result in more […]

 

Conservatives Warned Seattle This Would Happen When They Raised Their Minimum Wage To $15 Per Hour

Posted on by Scott McKay

The least surprising thing you’ll read all year is a report of what has happened to the low-wage jobs in Seattle after the city outlawed work paying less than $15 per hour. Naturally, there are now a lot more people lacking employment because the government has priced them out of the labor market. Shocking, we […]

 

Fast Food Workers and Unions Demand $15 an Hour in Hundreds of Cities Nationwide [Video]

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Low income fast food workers are protesting today in hundreds of cities across the US for a $15 minimum wage. You know, because that’s working so well in Seattle where businesses are closing and people are being laid off all over the place because of this insanity. The protesters are trying to sway the 2016 […]

 

$15 Minimum Wage Hike Causes Business to Sell $30 Pizzas – Predictably, Sales Plummet

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Morons on parade in California. These people can’t do basic math or grasp elementary economics. How in the world did they ever succeed at business? Must be so simple, a caveman could do it. Lanesplitter Pizza decided to beat the rush and pay their workers $14.44 an hour. They are actually now paying their employees […]

 

California Minimum Wage Fail: $15 Wage Means $30 Pizzas!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As more and more towns in the Golden States pass local laws demanding businesses pay a $15 per hour minimum wage, small businesses are starting to feel the pinch. Businesses are dying out and losing sales in heaps. As Breitbart reported, one such pizza shop decided to raise its wage but because of that also […]

 

LIB ECON 101: CEO WHO CUT HIS PAY TO GIVE EMPLOYEES ‘$70K MINIMUM WAGE’ PRETTY MUCH RUINED HIS BUSINESS

Posted on by McGuire

Seattle bsed Gravity Payments made headlines months ago when they announced a pay increase to $70K a year for everyone. Everyone included the CEO and owner, who took a pay cut from his $1M salary to help cover the costs. There are a few problems with socialism, though….: Not so fast, proggies!!! Just a few […]

 

CEO bumped his company’s minimum wage to $70,000 a year & some employees still quit

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Reality is going to bite that business in the behind, trust me. And it won’t be pretty. Dan Price has gone whole hog Socialist and mandated that all his workers will get $70,000 a year as a salary. From the lowliest worker to the executives. This means that there is no incentive to excel, because […]

 

Tech Company Develops Robots to Take the Place of $15 an Hr Workers [Video]

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Gee, who would have seen this coming? Well done, Progressives! Now our kids won’t be able to find work. On the bright side, it’ll make them figure out how to work for themselves. Just think how many more people will be unemployed because of this. I’ve said for years now that we are in a […]

 

Seattle CEO Who Set $70,000 Minimum Wage for Employees Sued By His Own Brother Over the Policy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You might recall earlier this year that a CEO of a credit-card-processing company in Seattle (the West Coast, where else?) announced to great acclaim that he intended to pay every employee a base salary of $70,000 a year. But now the CEO’s brother is suing saying that his absurdly generous brother violated is shareholder’s rights […]

 

Chipotle Predictably Responds To 14% Minimum Wage Hike With 14% Higher Prices

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

This is what you get when you pay for what someone feels they deserve versus what they actually earn in an open market. Of course prices have gone up at Chipotle to match the raise in the minimum wage. You didn’t think they were going to willingly lose money on the deal did you? In […]

 

The Minimum Wage Is One of the Key Policies That Will Cause Puerto Rico to Go Bankrupt

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Puerto Rico just signaled that it will file for Chapter 9 protection. They just hired former Detroit judge Steven Rhodes to assist them with this. This is the same tactic that was used by the City of Detroit. A lot of Puerto Rico’s woes can be traced to entitlements and the minimum wage in that […]

 

Hillary backs $15 per hour minimum wage but valets work her fundraiser for $10 [Video]

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Hillary, thy name is hypocrisy. How appropriate it is that the Hildebeast holds a fundraiser in the $11.4 million dollar home of ambulance chasers, er… personal injury attorneys, where outside the valet attendants make $10 an hour. A couple of days later, the Marxist-in-a-skirt goes all populist with the unions and royally decrees that the […]

 

The Fat Lady Hums A Few Notes

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

NoisyRoom.net Amidst all the other emergencies, real and concocted here in the US, one has gone almost virtually unnoticed. But it’s a kicker. The Bird Flu is sweeping the country like wildfire and has now killed 45 million chickens and turkeys here in the US… 20 million 2 months ago and 25 million last month. […]