Ontario passes $15 minimum wage

[JLM]

Poor Tim Hortons employers.


They are just struggling to make ends meet.....the line ups out onto the road.

In a lot of cases they probably are, unless of course, where they are the second bread winner in the family!

 

[Curious Cdn]

it's not the ceos who decide. It's the legislature.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahaahaahaahaahaahaa!!!!!!!!

 

[White_Unifier]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahaahaahaahaahaahaa!!!!!!!!

Germany did it.

 

[JLM]

What Timmys should do is quietly pass the increased costs on to the purchaser. If your costs of doing business go up, it's an entirely legitimate thing to do. No one is going to even notice an extra 25¢ on the price of their Double-Double but if this story is not brought under control, a resultant boycott will cost them lots. Penny-wise and pound-foolish management styles ...

Funny boy!

 

[Curious Cdn]

Germany did it.

Germany also gives it's workers a month plus at the spa, every year. They may as well be Martians for all that it means to North American Service Sector workers.

 

[Walter]

If prices go up, then what was the point of raising the minimum wage in the first place?

Zachary.

 

[JLM]

Zachary.

Isn't it amazing how many people can't get that through their heads. Fifty years ago you could rent a house for $75 a month when your wage was $300 a month. Today when wages are $3 grand a month, where can you find a house to rent for $750?

 

[Curious Cdn]

Isn't it amazing how many people can't get that through their heads. Fifty years ago you could rent a house for $75 a month when your wage was $300 a month. Today when wages are $3 grand a month, where can you find a house to rent for $750?

3 grand a month is not a living wage around here. House rentals START at $2000/month, here. The humblest of apartments are over $1000. Less than that is Rooming House room territory or perhaps Bates Motel.

 

[captain morgan]

Yeah.

So it's the employees fault.

Got it.

Did they have a gun to their head?

 

[Cannuck]

Isn't it amazing how many people can't get that through their heads. Fifty years ago you could rent a house for $75 a month when your wage was $300 a month. Today when wages are $3 grand a month, where can you find a house to rent for $750?

Yup. It was alot easier years ago. That's why the public debt racked up by your generation is so disgraceful.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Yup. It was alot easier years ago. That's why the public debt racked up by your generation is so disgraceful.

Yeah, and especially that public service pension liability. What a burden! Living like kings at the taxpayers expense ...

 

[taxslave]

You seem to get hung up on Gov't work, but I wonder if you realize Gov't (not political) workers do exactly the same work as everyone else and often for a lot less money!

Not anymore they don't. Take a look at the government pay scheduals then check around town at wat people are paying. Remember to include bennies.Especially in the municipal sector.

 

[captain morgan]

The students didn't have a gun to their heads, I checked.

So how 'bout the poor, wee workers at Timmies?... Are they forced to work at gun point?

 

[captain morgan]

I see... So, you were bullshitting when you stated you felt bad for the Timmies employees.

Gotcha

 

[Hoid]

Nobody gets excited when Tom Horton;s pays $20 an hour in Fort Mac .

$15 an hour is not that much in Ontario

 

[White_Unifier]

Nobody gets excited when Tom Horton;s pays $20 an hour in Fort Mac .

$15 an hour is not that much in Ontario

During the gold rush, all prices were inflated in the gold towns historically. It made sense for the gold minors to try to save their money, leave town once the work was done, and spend their hard-earned gold elsewhere.

That was true a hundred years ago and it's true today. Fort Mac was sitting on oil, so everyone was earning massive sums of money and as a result all prices went up. That's to be expected. We don't expect the cost of living to be the same everywhere.

20.00 in Fort Mac is fed by the abundance of gas there. What feeds the 15.00 in Ontario? Try raising the minimum wage in Mexico to 15.00 CAD and see what happens for example.

 

[Hoid]

Normal wages were up 65 cents an hour in Ontario.

SO ,min wage goes up a buck and its the virtual end of the world?

Did the CEO get a a buck an hour raise?

 

[JLM]

Normal wages were up 65 cents an hour in Ontario.

SO ,min wage goes up a buck and its the virtual end of the world?

Did the CEO get a a buck an hour raise?

Try about $50 for starters!

Nobody gets excited when Tom Horton;s pays $20 an hour in Fort Mac .

$15 an hour is not that much in Ontario

What comparison is there between Ontario and Fort Mac?

 

[captain morgan]

I did?

Yes, you did

 

[Curious Cdn]

Try about $50 for starters!




What comparison is there between Ontario and Fort Mac?

Pretty similar, I would think.