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In reply to the discussion: Sitting in a restaurant today I realized how much trouble we are in for [View all]quakerboy
(13,920 posts)53. I would agree with that
There should not be exceptions to the minimum wage law.
Not for servers who get tips, not for "managers" or certain other classes of workers who can be put on salary at 11 something an hour, then worked 70 hours, and thus paid under minimum. Not for kids or the handicapped or prisoners or H1b workers or illegal immigrants. Not for nothing. Minimum is minimum.
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Sitting in a restaurant today I realized how much trouble we are in for [View all]
NNN0LHI
Apr 2012
OP
It's not really anything to do with meals. it's to do with the assumption of tips.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#70
Those laws should be struck down. Apparently, they have become worse since I did restaurant p/r.
Cleita
Apr 2012
#107
The real problem is the attitude of the millionaire farmers...who probably aren't growing a damn
nanabugg
Apr 2012
#69
The difference is between $8 an hour and $20 an hour, for a good manufacturing job.
pnwmom
Apr 2012
#24
Despite your well known and feeble attempts to slander posters by using terms
former9thward
Apr 2012
#13
Because you phrase those memes exactly like they do. It makes me think that this is where
Cleita
Apr 2012
#25
Sorry, but not all of us have the confidence you have. The Trustees Report also says...
sad sally
Apr 2012
#39
I think there'll be a civil war before the right-wing breaks and gives in, in the grand scheme.
Selatius
Apr 2012
#71
"Legislative modifications" = rate increase, as has been done many times in the past.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#74
No one who actually delves into the history and the numbers for themself can actually believe that.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#73
Steinbeck said that when property is gathered in too few hands it is taken away.
leeroysphitz
Apr 2012
#33
Everyone sees that the employment figures as getting better, but that's not the whole story.
Arkansas Granny
Apr 2012
#9
My son is a cook at a chain restaurant. He has been there since it openned. He has done
southernyankeebelle
Apr 2012
#19
The middle class workers who built the American economy in the early 20th century
baldguy
Apr 2012
#20
Don, the fruits and joys of living in a society in which most public policy is driven by a
indepat
Apr 2012
#31
There are many different opportunities to look around you and reach the same conclusion.
Quantess
Apr 2012
#36
We see it coming - financial issues, just like global warming, just like....but we can't think big
NRaleighLiberal
Apr 2012
#37
How do you know this is his only job? Maybe he works another job and this one trying to make as
RB TexLa
Apr 2012
#41
Yup, our systems were not designed to work based on high unemployment or shrinking wages.
TheKentuckian
Apr 2012
#44
The more I look around the more I think we're headed for an economic revolt in the not too distant future.
Initech
Apr 2012
#46
We need the jobs back in the U.S., not in China. We need tariffs or something
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2012
#61
The reason why the auto industry jobs paid well and had good benefits was because of unions
Major Nikon
Apr 2012
#63
I agree. In Spain, where I lived for many years, waiters are paid a living wage
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2012
#97
Pretty much the same way these workers are loading floor pans at 3:00 minutes into this video
NNN0LHI
Apr 2012
#89
I think the 1% running this country will get rid of the Social Security and then those working these
midnight
Apr 2012
#104
"Millionare farmers" that probably sit around complaining about Obama all day.
louis-t
Apr 2012
#106