San Francisco Rides the $15 Wave

[xchrom]

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/14-1



It seems that Seattle has officially passed the $15 baton to San Francisco, and they’re running with it. On May 5th San Francisco had its first public organizing meeting to prepare for a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage to $15. The Labor movement and broader community organizations were well represented, and with them all the potential to achieve a great victory.


The San Francisco $15 proposal is stronger than the Seattle mayor’s version: the time line to get to $15 is shorter, and there are fewer exceptions.

San Francisco companies with more than 100 employees would have until 2016 to raise wages to $15 an hour, but they must lift wages to $13 an hour by next January. Businesses with fewer than 100 employees have until 2017 to raise wages to $15 an hour, but must raise them to $13 an hour by 2015 and $14 by 2016.

Polling has already indicated overwhelming support (59 percent) for the initiative.

[pipoman]

1. Seattle and most of California

Should be at $15 minimum considering the cost of living in those places. ..

[Victor_c3]

4. and don't forget NYC

It's extremely expensive around NYC too!

[pipoman]

5. Yep...

I'm a believer in minimum wage being tied to a cost of living index. As it is minimum wage is/will always be too low where the biggest living wage problems exist. Out here on the plains the jobs to labor ratio is way closer than in metro areas. Labor supply usually makes wages more livable out here...In metro areas labor is more disposable because of the numbers of unemployed candidates for jobs. I have problems getting applicants for jobs with decent pay and benefits here...my son can't find any job with benefits in so cal, he has been told in interviews that the job has had hundreds of applicants.

[Laelth]

2. k&r for labor. n/t

-Laelth

[hobbit709]

3. $15/hr in SF has you sleeping in a cardboard box under the overpass.