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Related: About this forumWisconsin: Bill would prohibit local "living wage" laws
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/bill-would-prohibit-local-living-wage-laws-b99203497z1-244989461.htmlThe proposed state measure prohibits local governments from enacting or enforcing a minimum wage law. It also would bar local officials from having residency requirements for workers on public works projects.
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County Supervisor David Bowen, the author of the Milwaukee County ordinance, called Kapenga's bill "a slap in the face" to local control.
The County Board approved an $11.32 minimum wage Thursday by a 12-6 margin. The measure was strongly backed by labor unions and advocacy groups, who said all full-time workers should earn enough to support their families. The $11.32 figure represents the federal poverty figure for a family of four.
Dear Corporations of the World, how can we love you more?
Sincererly, The Wisconsin GOP
postulater
(5,075 posts)hue
(4,949 posts)mokawanis
(4,434 posts)When elected reps try to pass laws to prevent working-class people from earning a decent wage it's time to vote the fuckers out of office. I just don't get why anyone votes for these assholes!
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Every industrialist since Henry Ford should have been able to see that workers who have money are workers that spend money, and companies like Costco are Beating MallWart by paying higher wages, having happier and healthier workers who stay in their jobs longer (minimizing the need for training new hires), etc.
The only answer that makes sense to me is that the Waltons of the world are driven by sheer meanness and spite.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Blue Owl
(49,906 posts)dragonlady
(3,577 posts)Just to show our side that we can't have anything, so we might as well give up and stop trying anymore. But maybe this is what will shock the people who don't vote in off-year elections into getting more involved to throw the bums out. Wouldn't that be karma?
CatholicEdHead
(9,740 posts)As Wisconsin is ALEC's legislative laboratory on how to take a moderately liberal blue state and turn it into a deep red state. Then watch the rest of the blue states fall like dominoes.
lutefisk
(3,974 posts)A little gerrymandering, a lot of money, and an ambitious and soulless Scott Walker to do the dirty work from the Governor's Office. Frighteningly easy.
I think ALEC has learned from this "experiment" and will be more efficient in other states.
CatholicEdHead
(9,740 posts)I am sure they are just drooling over the possibility over a GOP Congress and President again at the same time.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)riversedge
(69,709 posts)taken away.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I believe this is why our evil counterparts have grown so bold.
hue
(4,949 posts)AleksS
(1,665 posts)How many times have they "overruled" local control?
Act 10 had anti-local control measures
The Sick Days referendums were overriden by state laws
Now this.
And I'm sure there are more, those are just the ones that jumped out at me.
Smaller Government, my ass.