Minimum Wage Arises- $15 per Hour for the People

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The Ontario government's decision to raise the provincial minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2019 has set off a storm of predictable criticisms.


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On June 22, the BC Legislature reconvened and Premier Christy Clark tabled a curious Throne Speech which bore little resemblance to the platform her BC Liberal party ran on just weeks before.


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We, the undersigned economists, support the decision to increase the minimum wage in Ontario to $15 an hour. Raising the wage floor makes good economic sense.


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Minneapolis is getting a raise, and becoming the first Midwestern city to enact a $15 an hour minimum wage. The proposal will benefit 71,000 workers, overwhelmingly women and workers of color.


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via wsws.org (http://www.wsws.org)

Missouri’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a law that reverses the city of St. Louis’s 2015 hourly minimum wage increase, lowering it from $10 back to the state’s standard of $7.70.

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The Ontario Government under Premier Wynne has announced its plan to raise the minimum wage level from the current of $11.40 per hour to $15 per hour by 2019.


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via industriall-union.org (http://www.industriall-union.org/)

Recent legislative and political developments around the world illustrate the continuing increase of precarious work. Trade unions are fighting back.


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via socialistproject.ca (http://www.socialistproject.ca[/url)

http://socialistproject.ca/go3428.jpgThe Ontario government has committed to raise its minimum wage to $14 on January 1, 2018 then to $15 on January 1, 2019. This paper examines who in the province will get a 'raise' from the $15 minimum wage, and finds it will largely benefit the province’s most marginalized -- a broad and diverse swath of workers including contract, seasonal, and casual workers, part-time workers, women, and immigrants.

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In April 2012, during the height of Québec's Maple Spring, one of the key leaders of the student movement, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, said the hope was for that movement to be a 'trampoline.'


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In recent weeks, I have had the very same conversation with a number of my friends. Each time I'm told that they were participating in a discussion about the minimum wage when someone claimed that there was no point in raising wages because firms would just raise their prices to cover the increase.


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Watching the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs hearings on the Liberal government's Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act this week you can see the louder parts of the business community time and again push a narrative that if the minimum wage goes up to $15 by January 1, 2019, and if the ESA is strengthened, the economy will be in shambles.


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Chicken Little should be getting royalties from Thursday's Hamilton stop on the minimum wage travelling road show that Queen's Park is touring through Ontario. 'The sky is falling' was the operative idiom, in an impassioned, sometimes testy debate, as the circuit version of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs heard submissions at the Sheraton Hotel.


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New Zealand has nearly 80 living wage employers and that number is growing with councils and corporations alike adopting the idea. The living wage currently sits at $20.20 an hour, which is considered enough to 'pay for the necessities of life and participate as an active citizen in the community.'


More... (http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2017/07/living-wage-101-here-s-what-you-need-to-know.html)

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via socialistproject.ca (http://www.socialistproject.ca[/url)

http://socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls360.jpgBill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act (in Ontario, Canada), has been referred to the parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs. Over 10 days in July in 10 different cities, the Committee heard deputations on the Bill. In August, the Committee will review the Bill 'clause-by-clause' to decide what, if any, amendments will be made to the legislation.

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