VS: de enorme schande van de extreem lage minimumlonen....... Dit in een 'land' dat miljarden uitgeeft aan 'defensie' (illegale oorlogsvoering) en daarbij nog eens miljarden 'kwijt' raakt......

Het volgende artikel vond ik via Anti-Media, die me 'linkte' naar TheHill, echter het artikel van The Hill was niet over te nemen, vandaar dit alternatief van de Huffington Post.......

Vanaf 1 januari jl. is het minimumloon in de VS verhoogt naar het schandalig lage federale niveau van houd je vast: $ 7.25 per uur.......

Het 'hoogste' minimumloon verdient men sinds afgelopen maandag in de staat Washington, met een bedrag van $ 11.50 per uur........... Let wel, gezien de koers van de dollar het laatste jaar moet je daar voor omrekening naar euro's nog eens rond de 20% van aftrekken, ofwel meer dan € 2,--.......

De VS, het land van de 'ongekende mogelijkheden', althans voor de welgestelden en ondernemers........

Moet je nagaan, het grootste deel van de republikeinen is zelfs tegen deze armzalige loonsverhoging....... Wat een ploert moet je dan zijn, maar op zondag zit dat inhumane geteisem uiteraard jubelend voor in de kerk..... 

Het is zelfs zo zot dat een aantal staten die republikeins worden bestuurd, wetten hebben aangenomen, waarin een verbod is opgenomen om op lokaal niveau de minimumlonen te verhogen, dit daar de bonden en arbeiders 'iets teveel succes hadden', met hun strijd voor een verhoging van het minimumloon..... Zo werd in St. Louis het minimumloon verlaagd van $ 10.-- naar het federale minimumloon van $ 7.25 per uur (in het onderstaande artikel wordt daar gesproken over $ 7.70 per uur, echter dat moet zoals u eerder kon en zo kan lezen $ 7.25 zijn).......

De VS? Wat een land mensen, walgelijk!!

Minimum Wage Raises Coming To 18 States On New Year’s Day

By Dave Jamieson

Some hikes (loonsverhogingen, Ap) are less than a quarter an hour. But when you’re making minimum wage, every penny counts.

Minimum wage workers in 18 states will get a pay hike next week when higher wage floors go into effect around the country for 2018.

With the federal minimum wage remaining just $7.25 per hour, more and more states have opted to implement their own, higher rates that local employers must observe. Many of the bumps slated for New Year’s Day come courtesy of recent ballot initiatives approved by voters or bills passed by statehouses, in red and blue states alike.

Some of those states have laws requiring that the minimum wage is adjusted each year according to an inflation index, to rise with the cost of living. So several of the raises amount to less than a quarter an hour.

But other states that recently enacted new laws will have more significant increases. Maine’s will move a full dollar, to $10. Hawaii’s will rise 85 cents, to $10.10. And Colorado’s will increase 90 cents, to $10.20.

Here are the states with new minimum wages, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that tracks minimum wage legislation:

• Alaska: $9.84, $.04 increase
• Arizona: $10.50, $.50 increase
• California: $11.00, $.50 increase
• Colorado: $10.20, $.90 increase
• Florida: $8.25, $.15 increase
• Hawaii: $10.10, $.85 increase
• Maine: $10.00, $1.00 increase
• Michigan: $9.25, $.35 increase
• Minnesota: $9.65, $.15 increase
• Missouri: $7.85, $.15 increase
• Montana: $8.30, $.15 increase
• New Jersey: $8.60, $.16 increase
• New York: $10.40, $.70 increase
• Ohio: $8.30, $.15 increase
• Rhode Island: $10.10, $.50 increase
• South Dakota: $8.85, $.20 increase
• Vermont: $10.50, $.50 increase
• Washington: $11.50, $.50 increase

The institute estimates that the raises will impact 4.5 million workers. (For a map of the increases, go here.)

The federal minimum wage hasn’t budged in more than eight years and prevails in any state that doesn’t mandate a higher one. The last hike, in 2009, was the result of a series of increases signed into law by President George W. Bush. President Barack Obama stumped for a minimum wage hike throughout his second term, but Republicans in Congress blocked Democratic proposals from coming up for a vote.

Minimum wage bumps tend to be popular with the general public, with support often crossing partisan lines. A HuffPost YouGov poll last year found that more than half of all Americans thought a minimum wage raise would be good for workers, while only a third thought it would be a bad idea. The backing was greatest ― and most bipartisan ― for a modest hike to $10.10, as opposed to a bolder raise to $15.

Buoyed by that support, labor unions and low-wage workers have succeeded in getting raises passed on the state and local levels as the federal rate has stayed stagnant. Voters have approved minimum wage referendums even in more conservative states like Nebraska and South Dakota. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia now require a higher minimum wage than the federal one.

Dozens of cities and counties have also raised their minimum wages beyond the state and federal levels. In some cases, the hikes have gone as high as $15 per hour ― the stated goal of the Fight for $15 campaign, the union-backed movement that began with striking fast-food workers in 2012 but soon spread to other low-wage industries.

All that success by activists has prompted a backlash from Republican state lawmakers seeking to rein in minimum wage hikes. More than two dozen states now have “preemption” laws on their books that block localities from implementing their own raises. Many of these laws were passed in just the last few years to thwart campaigns by workers and unions.

Just this year, Republicans in Missouri passed a preemption law to retroactively kill a minimum wage hike enacted by city leaders in St. Louis. Under the new law, no locality could have a wage floor higher than the one mandated by the state. As HuffPost reported in July, the new law had the effect of reversing St. Louis’ minimum wage, taking it from $10 to the current state level of $7.70.

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Als u wel eens eet bij McDonalds of een andere pestfood-keten eet, steunt u deze schandalige lage minimumlonen, al deze ketens betalen hun personeel in de VS schunnig weinig (trouwens de medewerkers hier verdienen ook alles behalve voldoende.....)..... Boycotten die hap waardeloos voedsel!