Big Labor seeks LA minimum wage hike exemption for companies that hire Big Labor.

Full points for chutzpah: “Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide minimum wage increase approved last week by the Los Angeles City Council, are advocating last-minute changes to the law that could create an exemption for companies with unionized workforces.”  And, here’s the funny part: there’s a section of the Right that actually hopes that the unions manage to get this. Of course, most of the aforementioned section live in Texas…

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https://twitter.com/conncarroll/status/603620121010143232

7 thoughts on “Big Labor seeks LA minimum wage hike exemption for companies that hire Big Labor.”

  1. Wait.
    *ponders*
    Join the union you’re guaranteed to get less pay? That’s the argument here, right?
    Zombie Walter Reuther needs to rise up right now and proceed to Los Angeles.

    1. “Join the union you’re guaranteed to get less pay? That’s the argument here, right?”
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      No. The idea here is to get businesses to welcome unions with open arms so they can pay their employees less. It is a very cynical play.

    2. It’s not a pitch to pull in union members directly. It’s a pitch to get private businesses to give up fighting unionization. “Hey, we’re the cheaper option now!”

      1. So the way to fight the proposal is to go full Alinsky on them:
         
        “Why are the Big Unions screwing their own members? Why don’t they want their own members to take home a living wage? Call Rusty Hicks at 213-853-1212 and tell him that Big Labor should not be the puppet of Big Business! Call the City Council and tell them that this Big Corporation extortion doesn’t fool us!”

  2. “We were under the impression beers were free for the band.”
    “Naw, naw…”
    — The Blues Brothers

    The’ll get it, the LA city council is a union resource.

  4. I said this elsewhere, may as well say it here too ..
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    Looks to me like unions might be playing the long game.
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    This gives “the bigs” (i.e. WalMart, McDonalds) a cost-savings carrot, while getting their management familiar with unionized labor.
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    The union gets, in the short term, “the bigs” to stop saying *none* of their stores are unionized, and in the medium term – when all the non-union jobs are gone – the unions can jack up the rates with enough organization to make it stick.
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    Mew

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