https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1359433096643371008
And yeah, $15 is still too low. 4 years is still too long. But there are still 18M people who make less than $10 an hour and increase the wealth of people at the poverty line by like $20B. Not gonna complain too much on this one.
Close the service industry loophole that allows employers to pay less than minimum wage because "it'll be made up by tips". Fuck it if a bunch of shitty restaurants have to close.
or, if you absolutely have to, give those places a tax credit that pays for the difference and nationalize shit small restaurants
All small restaurants are now co-ops gang
its frustrating that I'm a better neoliberal than the neoliberals. If the Dems actually gave a shit about raising the minimum wage, this would be the retort to "wHaT aBoUt sMaLl BuSinEssEs"
Turning all small restaurants into co-ops would be fucking amazing. Just gotta get them all coordinated with a portion of their monthly profit going to a regional coordination council to help make sure everyone is taken care of even if there's a bad month. Also would allow for the workers to immediately do mutual aid on a mass scale.
Restaurants should pay the full minimum wage and do away with tipping
Absolutely not wtf
Working as a bartender or as wait staff is legitimately like the only way for someone who doesn't have a full college education, in a field that is hiring, to make a decent living.
If we want to raise the minimum wage to like $25-30 an hour, then yes, but till then all this would do is send a shit ton of people below the poverty line.
Yeah, abolish the "tipped wage" but tipping needs to be abolished as a social practice down the line (it sucks) rather than legislated clumsily
We also literally need socialism for the vast majority of working class people to have a comfortable life. Otherwise it’s just figuring out how to best divide the table scraps.
I don't particularly disagree, but that would lower wages for many service workers so ideally we would work around that.
I'm many states workers make the full minimum wage plus tips which works out for the better at least
What about backend workers like dishwashers, sorters, cooks, chefs, preppers? Are we less important than the servers?
No, you need a higher wage but backend don't get paid the tipped wage so I'm not sure what your point is. Or at least you shouldn't be.
No need for loaded questions like that, I'm not sure what kind of point you're making anyway.....
Biden proposed that, then backed off