Unions push for $15 wage now want to be exempt from wage
During a Los Angeles City Council hearing Friday, organized labor continued its push to have unionized companies exempt from a measure to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2020.
Last week the city council voted 14 to 1 on a tentative agreement to raise the city’s minimum wage. Though some specific provisions have yet to be finalized, a draft of the measure prompted some in the labor movement to ask for an exemption for unionized companies and workers. Rusty Hicks, executive secretary-treasurer for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, notes that though he supports the measure, allowing exemptions will ultimately help workers. His union is an affiliate of the AFL-CIO.
“Raising the minimum wage in Los Angeles is a tremendous victory,” Hicks said in a prepared statement issued to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Hicks notes he supports the measure as is and that though the exemption would be a helpful addition, he recognizes further debate might be necessary.
“There are a number of outstanding issues that are in need of further review, including the collective bargaining supersession clause,” he said. “This clause preserves and protects basic worker rights and that is why nearly every city in California that has ever passed a minimum wage ordinance has included these protections.”
source: Los Angeles Unions Want To Be Exempt From Wage Increase They Pushed For | The Daily Caller
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There is no shame to Unions.. they fight to force non-Union business to pay $15, then want to be exempt from the new minimum wage and have their members be paid $10 per hr.
This way they can go into a business and say, bring in a union and pay lower wages.
We need more "Right to Work" jurisdictions
During a Los Angeles City Council hearing Friday, organized labor continued its push to have unionized companies exempt from a measure to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2020.
Last week the city council voted 14 to 1 on a tentative agreement to raise the city’s minimum wage. Though some specific provisions have yet to be finalized, a draft of the measure prompted some in the labor movement to ask for an exemption for unionized companies and workers. Rusty Hicks, executive secretary-treasurer for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, notes that though he supports the measure, allowing exemptions will ultimately help workers. His union is an affiliate of the AFL-CIO.
“Raising the minimum wage in Los Angeles is a tremendous victory,” Hicks said in a prepared statement issued to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Hicks notes he supports the measure as is and that though the exemption would be a helpful addition, he recognizes further debate might be necessary.
“There are a number of outstanding issues that are in need of further review, including the collective bargaining supersession clause,” he said. “This clause preserves and protects basic worker rights and that is why nearly every city in California that has ever passed a minimum wage ordinance has included these protections.”
source: Los Angeles Unions Want To Be Exempt From Wage Increase They Pushed For | The Daily Caller
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There is no shame to Unions.. they fight to force non-Union business to pay $15, then want to be exempt from the new minimum wage and have their members be paid $10 per hr.
This way they can go into a business and say, bring in a union and pay lower wages.
We need more "Right to Work" jurisdictions
