Regrettably, the first comment ignored the FACTS, ignored the hidden costs to taxpayers of continuing to subsidize highly profitable companies that make their profits on the backs of low wage workers around the globe. My post below:
Massachusetts taxpayers are funding Wal-Mart Welfare for employees who are kept PART TIME to avoid providing benefits.
Wal-Mart offers CHEAP imported products made in many cases by slave wage workers in sub-standard conditions overseas, with no protection.
There have been enough building collapses and fires that have caused deaths and injuries.....widely reported!
Many of the products are contaminated, not subject to even minimal inspection or consumer protection standards.
The profits of the Wal-Mart Welfare go out-of-state or out-of-the-country.
You need to inform yourself of other communities and other states that have raised the minimum wage and proven to be successful.
You seem to be supporting the Banana Republic the Tea Baggers are driving us toward.
WARNING: GRAPHIC
http://features.peta.org/ChineseFurFarms/#ixzz2nUTlwQCo
Wolf eyes wage hike for fast-food workers
By C. Ryan Barber
rbarber@capecodonline.com Posted Jan. 27, 2015 @ 2:01 am
In the past legislative session, state Sen. Daniel Wolf spearheaded the push to gradually raise base pay to $11 by 2017, putting Massachusetts on course to have the highest minimum wage in the country.
But the Harwich Democrat is hungry for more.
This month, Wolf, D-Harwich, filed legislation to gradually raise the minimum wage for fast-food and big-box retail employees to $12 next year, $13.50 in 2017 and, finally, $15 in 2018. The bill, which applies only to businesses with more than 200 workers, closely resembles a proposal passed in Seattle last year that will require large companies to pay a minimum hourly wage of $15 beginning in 2017.
Although he expects it to draw “a lot of controversy and pushback,” Wolf said he filed the bill to help close the widening income gap while also curtailing what called the “extraction” of money from Massachusetts communities for out-of-state corporations.
“It’s the worst of both worlds,” he said. “The wealth is being exported, and the wages are not adequate.”
When asked about the bill’s chances of passing, Wolf said, “I think, honestly, it’s going to be tough to move it.” But Wolf said another bill, which proposes giving cities and towns the power to set base pay higher than the statewide minimum wage, might have a better shot.
“I think people generally do acknowledge that the cost of living is very disparate between different parts of the commonwealth,” Wolf said. “My guess is the city of Boston would be one of the first to look at it because of the cost of living.”
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Tea Baggers fight for RIGHT TO LIE!
Melissa Lucas was scheduled to appear in Falmouth District Court today for arraignment on a peculiar charge: making a false statement to defeat a political candidate, in her case state Rep. Brian Mannal.
But, at the request of Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe’s office, that hearing has been rescheduled for Feb. 24.
In a motion for a continuance, First Assistant District Attorney Brian Glenny wrote that the delay “is in the interest of justice as the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office, together with the Attorney General’s office, are reviewing the efficacies of the complaint.”
In other words, the district attorney’s office is considering the appropriateness of charging Lucas, as the chairwoman and treasurer of the conservative Jobs First Independent Expenditure PAC, with violating a nearly 70-year-old law that criminalizes false statements made to defeat a political candidate.
“In any case, you always want to review a charge and make sure it’s appropriate for the facts presented, and that’s what we’re doing,” Glenny said. “We go through that process on any case.”
The charge stems from a criminal complaint application filed by Mannal, D-Centerville, a week before he narrowly won re-election over his Republican challenger, Adam Chaprales. In the application, Mannal accused Jobs First of breaking state law with a mailer that claimed he filed sex offender legislation in hopes of representing more court-appointed clients, or “helping himself,” as the conservative group put it.
Mannal, whose legislation called for notifying sex offenders of their rights to a hearing and court-appointed attorney when applying for reclassification or early termination of sex offender status, said he has never handled a sex offender case and lacks the certification to do so.
An assistant clerk magistrate issued a complaint last month after a federal judge denied Jobs First attorney Peter Horstmann’s motion for an emergency injunction. Horstmann, who has argued that the state law violates the First Amendment, has appealed that judge’s decision not to intervene.
On Monday, Mannal said delay of the arraignment gave him no cause for concern.
“At this point, I’m not inclined to think that there’s a political motivation or a lack of will to prosecute an active Massachusetts criminal statute. It may be something they don’t have much experience with given the rarity of prosecutions under this particular chapter” of state law, he said.
http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20150127/NEWS/150129486/101015/NEWSLETTER100
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