Fast-food lobbyists say the higher California minimum wage law led to a loss of nearly 10,000 jobs. The claim is baseless.
  • Delusional@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    They can survive by paying living wages. They just don’t want to. How would they rake in all that money if they had to spend a little bit extra? Preposterous!

    The businesses don’t care about employee’s lives in the slightest so why should the employees care about the business?

    My employer promised a raise after 3 months. It took them over a year and a half for them to finally give me a small raise and it’s still below a living wage. They think I’m actually gonna care about my job and do it right when they fucked me over like that? I mean sure it’s my fault for sticking around at a shitty company but this situation shouldn’t be allowed to happen in the first place. They cost me thousands of dollars that I should have been making. I don’t care if I cost them thousands as well.

    Also my coworker who gets paid way more than I do does less than a 1/5th of the work that I do but they won’t get rid of him.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Oh, I know they won’t close. That’s just their threat. They keep saying “oh woe is us, if we have to pay living wages then we won’t be able to keep the staff hours or we’ll go out of business and look at all the employees that would lose their jobs.”

      But it’s a thinly veiled threat and always has been. What they are saying is “if you do this, I’ll hurt all these people in response.”

      If your business closes because you can’t manage your costs, then another business will fill the void that can. Isn’t that how they always describe capitalism and the “free” market? They have money to pay for all this media and “reporters” to repeat their propaganda. They’d rather pay that then spend the same on their employees.