TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY BIZ LEADERS THREATEN LAWSUIT IF MAYOR AND COUNCIL PASS MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE!!!
The fight for a higher wage in Kansas City, Missouri continues to meet with increased opposition and now biz leaders are going after the beleaguered city legal department.
To wit . . .
KANSAS CITY BIZ LEADERS THINK THEY CAN BEAT CITY HALL IN A LEGAL CHALLENGE OVER A NEW MINIMUM WAGE UNDER DISCUSSION!!!
Meanwhile, Mayor Sly is organizing a pointless meeting mostly intended to mislead and condescend to the plebs hoping to make more money . . .
Minimum Wage Stakeholder Group to Meet Monday
Now, here's the bit of language from new-ish Missouri legislation that Kansas City biz leaders believe Mayor Sly, City Council and the legal department are misreading:
"The provisions of this subsection shall not preempt any state law or local minimum wage ordinance requirement in effect on August 28, 2015."
Mayor Sly and Council dude Jermaine Reed might be misleading local advocates by focusing on what City Legal says is the "local" loophole.
Meanwhile . . . Biz leaders read it this way:
"The provisions of this subsection SHALL NOT PREEMPT ANY STATE LAW or local minimum wage ordinance requirement in effect on August 28, 2015."
Remember, "It is ALREADY against state law to require a minimum wage above the state's minimum wage."
Now, there's a "living wage" loophole but that's non-binding according to some local biz insiders kind enough to serve up this tasty tidbit . . . Translation: This could all be a song and dance over a glorified resolution disguised as an ordinance with no real power to raise wages.
However . . .
WHAT'S IMPORTANT HERE IS THAT CITY LEGAL ALWAYS STAYS LOSING AND BACKS DOWN FROM A CHALLENGE . . . BIZ LEADERS SHAKING THEIR FIST AT MAYOR, COUNCIL CITY HALL SHOULD PROVIDE A MOMENT OF PAUSE!!!
Finally . . .
What our blog community fears is many broke-ass people getting their hopes up and providing an opportunity for politicos to takeover or co-opt their platform for an increased standard of living.
Also, the cruel capitalist reality is that there's no future in getting paid the MINIMUM on any scale and the real struggle is for each individual worker to compete against colleagues for more resources . . . Fair or unfair.
Developing . . .
be fair now TKC, city legal is only useless in discrimination complaints. They do much better in other places.
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This would also require a wage increase for a large portion of city employees. That would destroy the city budget which calls for a wage freeze. Also all bargaining contracts have a me too clause which would give across the board raises. Sly knows it is illegal and won't stand up so he can grandstand and pander saying i tried but the big bad state stopped me,.
ReplyDeleteThis is all circus and no bread.
ReplyDeleteYip another thing Sly ain't gonna do.
ReplyDeleteJust use some kind of clever delay tactic and hope the workers forget or drop it.
Myth Busting: Most of the people receiving SNAP benefits are white, & most of them have jobs. Wal-Mart was embarrassed that so many of their employees qualified for anti-poverty assistance. When they raised their employees' wages, they knew they would get some of it back because their employees also shop at Wal-Mart. I guess these local business men don't have such scruples, or such understanding of basic economics.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the success of our business men supposed to result in some benefits "trickling down" to the poor masses? Isn't this the reason that they have been encouraged to accumulate wealth at unprecedented levels? Do I have to keep calling them "job creators", or can I call them "wage enslavers" instead?
The current law reflects the current ignorance. Wrong headed laws can, & should, be changed. They are not carved in stone.
Unions in California pushed the minimum wage hike that passed and now those same unions are asking for an exemption to the law.......
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/30/unions-seek-exemption-from-la-minimum-wage-law-helped-pass/?intcmp=latestnews
Sounds like the same old SONG and DANCE act directed behind the scenes by Sly James.
ReplyDelete"Also, the cruel capitalist reality is that there's no future in getting paid the MINIMUM on any scale and the real struggle is for each individual worker to compete against colleagues for more resources . . . Fair or unfair."
ReplyDeleteNot even a mention of the possible repeal of right to work statute - cop out Tony!
Where I work we had to take a pay cut when the new owners took over, our pay went down, so instead of making over $15.00 an hour, pay dropped to a little over &13.00 an hour, my pay is going back up little by little, but when they cut our pay, all the niggers ran to the administrators office so they could get a letter of proof their pay went down, all the niggers are on section ape and food stamps, subsidised niglet care, even at $13.00 an hour, so any pay increase will never be enough for the niggers, these niggers also get $6000.00 back at tax time. any new workers start at min wage.
ReplyDeleteSubhuman chimping nigger ground apes just want a pawout. Just BEING niggers and at apeployment where the subhuman chimping nigger ground apes can chimp and party with other subhuman chimping nigger ground apes ferally is supposed to be enough for the niggerbeast pawout.
ReplyDeleteRaising minimum wage to minigmum wage for subhuman chimping nigger ground apes is harmful in that human high school kids are priced so high the independent hardware store can't pay a high schooler to push a broom and stock, and then it tells subhuman chimping nigger ground apes that those are worth so much money & that those are precious and unique snowflakes. When in reality those dumb and dangerous animals are purely just mulenostril chimping nigger ground apes that are subhuman.
"The real struggle is for each individual worker to compete against colleagues for more resources."
ReplyDeleteResources? WTF? You must have learned your economics from Marx--Groucho that is, because that line surely was crafted to do nothing more than generate a laugh.
How about the real struggle being for those born without means to raise themselves up with a formal education, work themselves up with something called a work ethic, and elevate their socioeconomic status with the tools that abound--or used to--in a free society? Try googling "income mobility" and learning something, TKC, instead of posting with one hand and jerking off to Jordan Carver/Alonzo Washington photos with the other.
I love it.. greed goes virtually unchecked at every level of the "free market" US economy and folks are brainwashed to believe that the working poverty-level citizens are to blame for things.
ReplyDeleteThis country is completely fucked, but Tyrone wanting $15 to work a drive-thru window isn't even in the top 100 in a list of reasons.
But keep on swallowing Hannity's massive loads you dipshits.
I see the sheep loving, racist, Nazi Byron has given us his libtard opinion.
ReplyDeleteWe are all really missing that deep thinking in the public policy arena 144 and 147 (maybe the same guy?).
ReplyDeleteLets wheel you out as a candidate for public office and I will be the first to lead the charge.
If you would post your name, I would know where to send the contribution. 'Cause a guy with that type of insights has the scrotum to identify themselves.
Lets make it happen hard charger!
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ReplyDeleteYou can't get it to take traction. As least listen from the other posters.
And I am pretty sure it's O'Reilly's nuts hes fondling, not Hannity's.
Where's that fucking "Stretch" during all this posturing and puffing? I'm sure he wants to pay his people more, doesn't he???? Yeah, sure.
ReplyDeleteCurrent MO law:
ReplyDelete67.1571. No municipality as defined in section 1, paragraph 2, subsection (9) shall establish, mandate or otherwise require a minimum wage that exceeds the state minimum wage.
(L. 1998 H.B. 1636 § 18)
This is currently on the books, and is not dependent on HB 722. The city will be facing a legal battle for sure.
Byron wants to see wages go up so his check we all work to provide to him so he can sit home will as well go up thats why he is harping the shit he is.
ReplyDeleteNiggers make more on welfare and EBT and Section Ape then anything a minimum wage can give them.
ReplyDeleteGoddamn coons.
I have yet to see anyone state the obvious.
ReplyDeleteIt is not against the minimum wage law for any employer to pay more than the minimum wage. Period.
However in order to get paid more than the minimum wage you have to provide value above that level to the employer. Most people who are on MW don't meet that test.
Some employers are ass-wipes and fall back on MW even though they may have good hard working employees. If they want to always be known as A-W's you can't legislate that away.
The more money people make the more they will spend it on all the shit we produce.
ReplyDeleteWho would have guessed. The president of the africo aprican mayorial society is reviving 1980's burger wars right here in high tech city.
ReplyDeleteReally like this post, you have inspired me to get out of the dead end burger game. I think I'm gonna become a consultant.
ReplyDeleteGreat Kansas City,
ReplyDeleteLet's pay the fucking idiots who didn't graduate high school, went to prison, or screwed their own lives up about the same as we pay teachers, fire fighters or our cops. What in the fuck is the mayor thinking? I cannot believe we couldn't get anyone to run against that dumb ass. Don't tell me he's an attorney so he must be smart. Any idiot can sue an insurance company. You want to impress me Sly? Raise ALL of your children, not just the ones that don't hate you.