St. Louis minimum wage will drop from $10 to $7.70

[TheStruggle]

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens said he will allow a bill that will repeal St. Louis' minimum wage to become law without his signature.

Greitens announced that he will not sign the bill, which creates a standard statewide minimum wage, but that the measure will go into law automatically Aug. 28 without his signature. Under the law, St. Louis' $10 an hour minimum wage will revert back to the statewide minimum wage of $7.70 an hour.

"Our state needs more private sector paychecks and bigger private sector paychecks," Greitens said in a statement about his decision to let the bill become law. "Politicians in St. Louis passed a bill that fails on both counts: it will kill jobs, and despite what you hear from liberals, it will take money out of people's pockets."

"This increase in the minimum wage might read pretty on paper, but it doesn't work in practice," Greitens said.

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1 issued a statement saying the bill will take money out of the pockets of tens of thousands of working people.

"For me and so many others, that means going back to living paycheck to paycheck," Sierra Parker, an SEIU janitor, said in a statement released by the union.


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So let me get this straight, you joined a union and the best you could do was Minimum wage???? You got fucking jobbed.

 

[Falsedawn]

Why does the GOP hate the working class?

 

[Offended]

[QUOTE="TheStruggle, post: 131559199, member: 421883"

So let me get this straight, you joined a union and the best you could do was Minimum wage???? You got fucking jobbed.[/QUOTE]

Most unions are shit these days.

As are many jobs but decent ones where you make as much as you put it are still there.

But lazy fucks just want to get 20 an hour for a half ass'd barely any work done.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

Eric Greitans really helping lower class Missourians.

 

[Covfefe]

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Most unions are shit these days.

As are many jobs but decent ones where you make as much as you put it are still there.

But lazy fucks just want to get 20 an hour for a half ass'd barely any work done.

SMH

 

[TheStruggle]

Why does the GOP hate the working class?

Minimum wage is 'the working class'?

 

[Offended]

Most unions are shit these days.

As are many jobs but decent ones where you make as much as you put it are still there.

But lazy fucks just want to get 20 an hour for a half ass'd barely any work done.

SMH

[/QUOTE]

Get a sales job, earn as much as you put in.

Hey lets give all lazy fucks free money, as long as its not from your wallet right ?

liberal are real giving with other peoples money.

let me guess, your hero is this guy.

 

[Falsedawn]

Minimum wage is 'the working class'?

Uh, no shit?

If not them, then who? Lmfao.

 

[Rational Poster]

Uh, no shit?

If not them, then who? Lmfao.

The minimum wage is for the slave class, I mean who cares about them anyway?

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

Why does the GOP hate the working class?

Correct me if I'm wrong but dont recent studies in Seattle suggest that on average workers are losing pay due to the increase of minimum wage? Less hours, less new hires.


Sidenote. I was in East St Louis 20 years ago (it's probably changed by now) but holy s*** that was the worst ghetto I think I've ever come across my life. The White Castle we went to had bars where you ordered your food. And everyone seemed to have just ran out of gas...ahhhh memories.

 

[uncommon]

Seattles minimum wage laws costs low skilled over 120$ a month due to less openings and less hours.

you have to tackle the cost of living on the other side of the asset liability scale.

focus on lowering rent prices and people wont need to complain about 7$hr

how you lower rent in a fair and balanced way is not going to be easy though.

 

[Fawlty]

Why does the GOP hate the working class?

Greitens is a goddamn disaster. Health services being cut to shit as well. He's just arbitrarily deciding that we need austerity and lots more guns on the street. Good luck with that I guess?

 

[Falsedawn]

Correct me if I'm wrong but dont recent studies in Seattle suggest that on average workers are losing pay due to the increase of minimum wage? Less hours, less new hires.

The issue with Seattle is that they may have gone too high, not that they raised it at all.

Also, since it's so recent, none of those analyses are concrete. I've seen the one you're referencing, as well as others that say that the increased pay is causing the working poor to spend more, thus injecting money into their local economy. It's far too soon to say definitively either way, though the issue is moreso to what degree to raise Min Wage vs actually raising it at all.

 

[Fawlty]

Eric Greitans really helping lower class Missourians.

MO has tons of rural & sorta-but-not-quite suburban class people who are going to be hurt badly by this guy. Especially since the union options are basically gone now.

 

[HomeRun916]

I'm ok with this.

 

[Offended]

Correct me if I'm wrong but dont recent studies in Seattle suggest that on average workers are losing pay due to the increase of minimum wage? Less hours, less new hires.
.

cause and effect.

Where i'm at we are two years removed form 15 minimum yet our company is already preemptively cutting hours for many workers.

 

[Witchhunt]

Why does the GOP hate the working class?

Like clockwork....

 

[Gunny]

So let me get this straight, you joined a union and the best you could do was Minimum wage???? You got fucking jobbed.

There are no union members making minimum wage. They're concerned because they negotiate their wages off the area's prevailing non-union wages

 

[Madmick]

I expect there will be an uptick in jobs.

 

[Falsedawn]

Seattles minimum wage laws costs low skilled over 120$ a month due to less openings and less hours.

you have to tackle the cost of living on the other side of the asset liability scale.

focus on lowering rent prices and people wont need to complain about 7$hr

how you lower rent in a fair and balanced way is not going to be easy though.

Rent controls are a tough cookie to bite into though, there's no way that i've seen to do it gracefully. In ATX for instance, i'm (as a middle class person) finding myself priced out of Austin despite making more than enough to be self sufficient. I make too much for the controlled apartments, but not enough to live downtown without adjusting my lifestyle to an unreasonable degree. You risk pricing out the middle class instead of the poor, which can be more harmful to local economies. It's a hard issue to address.