dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I wonder how "father of poop" would feel about the police striking in St Louis? Police often belong to collective bargaining unions in many cities.

debeda

Yeah.... if what teachers make is minimum wage, there are millions whose employers are not in compliance

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I was trying to be generous and not tell him what it really resembles.

Cacasdad

What F’n Bible did you read that says their will be no judgement days?

Oh yea; no dtucker300 medical and vacation are not considered salary, only the cash that ends up in your checking account is salary. Medical and vacation fall under the benefits category, hence new union contracts, at least in the USA, are reported as “salary and benefits.

This is what right to work in America has done to auto workers in the RTW states, most all in the republican dominated south, in 2020 the salary and benefits are slightly worse than the salary and benefits the, Ford Lincoln Mercury dodge Chrysler Plymouth GM Chevy Oldsmobile corvette, yes st Lou had em all, we’re earning in the early 1980’s.

Call me a liar if you wish, just have the facts to back up you assertion. You can find that I know what I’m talking about with a simple google search of both the post dispatch, and I believe the globe democrat was still around, archives.
No I don’t have to prove it, you have to prove I’m a liar if you’re going to call me on!!

Much like George Patton I am
on very good terms with the Living God, as evidenced by the 1406sf house on a 34,000sf lot that I bought for $1;)
I was faithful to him when he asked me to walk away from $200k in my divorce, and today I have a mortgage free home.

If judging has ended that means I can be as horrible a person as I want, and I still get a goojfc, you really are the stupid of no critical thinking skills.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Republicans and Democrats don't set teachers' wages. Most districts bargain with their local school board made up of non-partisan trustees. Where are your critical thinking skills? So far, all I've seen you do is express your vitriolic opprobrious obstinate intolerance for anyone who disagrees with your fallacious pronouncements.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

"The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00."

That was the headline of an editorial in one of America's most prestigious newspapers. Can you guess which one? The Wall Street Journal, perhaps? Right city; wrong paper. This editorial appeared in the New York Times in 1987. "There's a virtual consensus among economists," the Times wrote, "that the minimum wage is an idea whose time has passed." So, economists and the liberal paper were on the same page (pun intended).

Why?

Because they understood that a minimum wage does not guarantee jobs. It guarantees only that those who get jobs will be paid at least that minimum. And that leads to two bad outcomes: unemployment and higher prices.I can best explain this by asking a simple question: What is a wage? A wage is the price of labor. Now, what happens if the price of labor rises, not because workers have become more productive, not because a business must pay higher wages to hold on to valuable employees, but only because the government requires it?

When the minimum wage rises, employers will adjust. They will use less labor. They'll fire current employees or cut back on their hours. They will also raise prices for their goods or services. These are undesirable consequences. But let's also consider another bad effect Businesses will hire fewer workers, especially those with little or no job experience.

Suppose you're young and haven't worked many jobs before. Maybe you've never had a job and are trying to land your first one. The work you can offer an employer may be worth only, say, $7 an hour. You agree. He agrees. And you have your first job.

But what if the minimum wage set by the government is higher than $7? What if it's $10 or more? Well, you won't get the job. You may be willing to work for $7 an hour, but under minimum wage laws, it would be illegal for you to do so. This very point was made by Paul Samuelson, one of the leading economists of the twentieth century, and a prominent liberal. I paraphrase from his classic textbook Economics: "What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him a minimum wage if the fact that he must be paid that wage keeps him from getting a job?"

And, that young person loses more than a paycheck. He also loses valuable work experience: learning to accept responsibility, dealing with a boss, getting along with co-workers -- all the things that demonstrate to an employer that he made the right choice in hiring; and all the things that will help that young person get a better paying job down the road.

A recent study found that in some cities the unemployment rate for teens without a high school diploma approached 50%. Pricing these teens out of the labor market does them no favors. It's not doing the rest of society any favors, either. Teenagers who can't find jobs often find trouble.Advocates of a higher minimum wage argue that, while some young people might be priced out of the job market, this is outweighed by the fact that those who have minimum wage jobs will get a wage increase. But that doesn't mean they'd be better off.

It's true that the government can force business owners to pay its minimum wage workers more per hour, but it can't force these business owners to pay them more per week. According to the Los Angeles Times, after Connecticut raised its minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, a 20 year old woman who worked at a donut shop in Hartford was soon disappointed when her hours were cut from 35 per week to 27.

Employers will look for other ways to cut costs. The Economic Policy Institute, a union-funded organization that pushes for higher minimum wages, admits this. "Employers," they write on their website, "may be able to absorb some of the costs of a wage increase through higher productivity, lower recruiting and training costs, decreased absenteeism, and increased worker morale." How would an employer get higher productivity? By working the employees harder. How would an employer cut training costs? By training them less.

So, let's summarize. Raising the minimum wage makes it harder for young and inexperienced workers to get jobs, to get on that crucial first rung of the employment ladder. And many of those who do benefit from a wage increase will likely find those benefits undone. They will work fewer hours, will work harder per hour, and will get less training

Sounds like the New York Times had it right back in 1987.

I'm David Henderson, the editor of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, for Prager University.


You wouldn't know your ASSertion from a hole in the ground.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

You are begging to be suspended from this site and too ignorant to realize it. Permanently, I hope.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

You might as well get all your shots in now because I can guarantee that you have very little time left to post anything on OPP. You are soon to be kicked off of this site, permanently. Then you can move on to your next site and continue with your bullying. You are nothing but a little cyber coward who would never have the nerve to say the things you do directly to our face.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

No... Unions want smaller classes because it is next to impossible for a single teacher to properly supervise and manage over thirty students... Especially when you to a third of them have been "diagnosed" with a "learning disability" and require special considerations...

Unions use strikes to influence school boards... Obviously...

I agree that parents play a large part in the problem... To many are indifferent to the situation of teachers and the education system in general...



Trigger you?

Why would I bother?

And I am quite proud to be a Deplorable... I was one of the first, back in 2015...I believe it was after Trump's second rally... I heard a message I wanted to hear spoken in a way that resonated with me...



No... His father and mother were both teachers... They struggled in the early years due to the depression... But saved everything they earned and worked part time jobs... My uncle tended bar six nights a week... My aunt taught piano on the side.... They held a garage sale and mortgaged their home to help put him through university.... Then he travelled to Japan (his wife was from there) and worked as a teacher... Lived with her family... Bought into a school... Then opened a kindergarten... Later he purchased the first apartment building, with help from both his and her parents... Then the second... Later some rental properties....

He was raised well.... And works hard...

There are no trust fund babies in my family... But thankfully, not too many welfare bums either...

Hard work often results in success... His parents can be proud that all five of their children have good careers, successful marriages, and no debt....

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Nicely done my friend.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Shhhhhh! That's where we hide the bodies.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Utohhhh. Jealousy again~~

You know when a person really has no true factual reply and reverts to name calling and insults its because you have left them with nothing to refute your comments.. They get angry with themself and need to take it out on you....Subconscious tell all... well done~👍😂🥰

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Tell it!!! 👍👍👍

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Unions once good have no true standing anymore other than to try and buy their existence paying off the dems to keep them going..

At one point in time they were needed and brought change for employees over equal right, pay protection of firing etc.. Having achieved the proper laws to help employees they now are very limited in what they can really do. Discrimination, equal pay, etc. is now an issue of law with good law in place that protects employees..

They fight with their own members and really can’t do much since the laws are in place.~~They do iinfluence voting with strong propaganda BS trying to direct their members to vote a certain way..,~

They are still ticked about the SCOTUS ruling against them trying to fleece people out of fees even tho they weren't members~~Strong arm tactics.~~

Supreme Court says forcing public employees to pay union fees violates free speech
The decision could limit funding for influential unions of public employees.

Supreme Court says forcing public employees to pay union fees violates free speech
The high court's decision could limit funding for influential unions of public employees.
Jacquelyn Martin/AP
The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of public employees' First Amendment rights to decline to pay union dues, marking a potential blow to the funding for influential unions of public employees.

The decision marks a big moment for Justice Neil Gorsuch, who voted with the majority and broke the tie from 2016 when the court was split 4-4 in the same case after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia... <snip>

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-forcing-public-employees-pay-union-fees/story?id=56199643

Cacasdad

Excuse me stupid, but I did make the point that it’s elected members of school boards that make decisions about their schools.
I have no problem with people who disagree with me. It is through consideration of differing thoughts that s person grows personally.
You haven’t grown since you spit out the teet!