(07-06-2017, 04:35 AM)Armonica_Templar Wrote: ...UW minimum-wage study doesn’t reflect reality of work in SeattleGreat piece and oddly enough, there was an article on the Sky News channel in the UK about
the same subject only four hours after Armonica_Templar posted this!
The source, The Living Wage Foundation, had a spokeswoman from a foundation -who first of all,
corrected the Presenter's introduction that the British-based Think-Tank hadn't studied the minimum
wage, but the 'Living' wage and then stated that many low-paid workers received less money than they
can live on.
I know this is true, but why has it only come to light now?!
Specifically in Britain, the mainstream media have never made a big thing of low-paid workers
and the subject was certainly never raised before and during the 'Brexit' referendum.
Sure, on rare occasions when findings were announced, there'd be a reference to it, but overall,
a discussion on the topic was something to be steered away from.
With the political tussle going on at the moment in the UK and the begrudged trending of nationalism
across the world, I think it's just another bullet to use in order to say that the past status-quo was better.
Many low-paid workers have always struggled and a minimum wage -albeit a good idea, has never been
something that employers seek to improve.
Why would they?!
In the UK, the irony is that for many thousands of people, the welfare system provides an income higher
than most low-paid work and for a couple of generations now, they actually call it 'pay'
Again particularly for Great Britain, the recent announcement from doesn't explain why it's now a priority
to bring it to the fore, but I suspect it has something to do with the recent troubles and tragedies in the
country.
The majority of the working-class and the poor now have a different skin-colour from past working-classes
in general, and as political-correctness demands, the current situation is a voting nightmare.
Interesting thread, A.T.
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