$20 Minimum Wage Endorsing Socialist Group Posts $13-Per-Hour Job Listing | Ben Swann Truth In Media
If there's anything that bothers me more than extreme leftist utopianism, it is blatant hypocrisy.
However, the Freedom Socialist Party promised that its push for a $15-per-hour Seattle minimum wage would leave no one behind. The partys article promoting Seattles minimum wage hike includes this choice quote, The Seattle fight has moved from the streets to City Hall. In May, new Mayor Ed Murray, Democrat, announced his proposal for $15/hour for some workers, after several years. Healthcare, tips, and other compensation would be calculated into their income. In short, Mayor Murrays plan caters to big business Concretely, Murrays proposition affects 102,000 working people in Seattle. In that quote, party activist Linda Averill effectively criticizes loopholes in Seattles minimum wage that allow some employers to get around it.
One such loophole allows small employers like the Freedom Socialist Party to wait seven years before fully implementing the $15 minimum wage. The City of Seattles posting on the new minimum wage law says, Small employers (businesses with fewer than 500 employees) will reach a $15 an hour minimum wage in seven years. Also established is a temporary guaranteed minimum compensation responsibility of $15 an hour to be met within the first five years, which can be achived [sic] by combining employer-paid health care contributions, consumer-paid tips, and employer-paid wages. Consequently, the Freedom Socialist Party is not technically violating the minimum wage law that it promoted, but is merely using a loophole that it criticized to leave its own future web content manager behind with regards to the $15-per-hour pay rate.
Reason points out the fact that web development, one of the skills required of the Freedom Socialist Partys future employee, typically brings in around $62,500 per year according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics citation by US News and World Report, meaning that the chosen applicant will have to work at wages far below industry norms. Given the reality that small organizations and businesses do not have unlimited money and sometimes can not afford to raise wages to an arbitrary level, the Freedom Socialist Partys example proves that its rhetoric about small businesses struggles with conforming to a minimum wage are not just a phony concern, an argument that party activist Linda Averill advanced in her article promoting Seattles $15 minimum wage hike. In fact, it is a very real concern for the Freedom Socialist Party itself.
$20 Minimum Wage Endorsing Socialist Group Posts $13-Per-Hour Job Listing | Ben Swann Truth In Media
If there's anything that bothers me more than extreme leftist utopianism, it is blatant hypocrisy.