Arizona minimum wages
Arizona, home of such wonderful ideas like right-to-work, and no minimum wage law, might actually get a chance to implement a minimum wage law, if the public can see through the FUD.
But if anything scares the cheap labor crowd more than a union, it's having to actually pay waitresses and bartenders more than what the Fed says they have to. But if this does pass, businesses will probably just cut hours, to keeps the payroll at the same level.
The debate over raising Arizona's minimum wage to $6.75 per hour from $5.15 is heating up over a section of the proposed law that grants access to a company's records.
At issue is what happens after workers discover that they are not earning the new legal wage and decide to take action.
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The Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business, which do not support the increase, are crying foul.
They maintain that Proposition 202 will serve as a slick route to allow organized labor to "infiltrate" the state's companies and get access to payroll records, benefits, names of employees and Social Security numbers.
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Groups that support the minimum-wage increase said those claims are false.
Instead, it is a scare tactic that feeds on Arizona's longtime anti-union sentiment. The proposal provides safeguards that maintain employee and company confidentiality, said Michael McGrath, executive director of the Arizona AFL-CIO, which is a member of the Arizona Minimum Wage Coalition.
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I think the argument is a moot point. Back in the 80s when they raised the minimum wage to $3.35, the diners and other restaurants took the little ceramic cow filled with cream off the table and put out cream packets. Well those effects of removing services in favor of DIY items have already been in place so there is little to take away other than making the patrons get up off their sorry arses and go get the food from the cook directly. Maybe the owners are thinking that the waitstaff will make less in tips, but that's bullshit because it is a relationship business and when you frequent a place and get to know certain people you tend to tip them the same or more because they have built a rapport with you and because they always give you good service.
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