Well, didn’t see that coming …
The $15 minimum wage hike in California has sent financially troubled UC Berkeley into decision making mode, and “the people who clean buildings, who work in food services or health clinics,” says Todd Stenhouse, will be the ones without a job.
Stenhouse, a spokesman for the American Federation of StateChancellor, also said “There’s a very clear need for those front-line services. But the question is whether there really is a need to hemorrhage resources on executives.”
Nicholas Dirks sent a memo to employees Monday informing them of the job reductions and said they will amount to “a modest reduction of 6 percent of our staff workforce.”
Berkeley employs about 8,500 staffers, from custodians to administrators. Departments on campus were reportedly also told to reduce their budgets by 10 percent in whatever way they wish.
Some staff members in at least one area, residential student services, were told by managers two weeks ago that they should prepare to be laid off.
Now let’s recall the wise words of Gov. Moonbeam Brown when he signed this law …
Brown, traveling to the state’s largest media market to sign the landmark bill, remained hesitant about the economic effect of raising the minimum wage, saying, “Economically, minimum wages may not make sense.”
But he said work is “not just an economic equation,” calling labor “part of living in a moral community.”
“Morally and socially and politically, they (minimum wages) make every sense because it binds the community together and makes sure that parents can take care of their kids in a much more satisfactory way,” Brown said.
I’m sure those people losing their jobs will be comforted to know they have been sacrificed for the “greater good” and their livelihood transferred to those more worthy of living in the “moral” community.
500 more people are learning that the real minimum wage is $0.00/hr
But it’s OK because their intentions are pure.
I’ll bet they have a sizable number of much higher-paid people doing much less useful work at Bezerkly…
Which is merely an observation, not a vote in favor of a minimum wage.
500 more people are learning that the real minimum wage is $0.00/hr
And when the stagflation caused by the wage mandates kicks in, everything they (and we) buy will be more expensive too.
And just wait until all those job-saving fair trade tarrifs get it going on!
Add to that our highest in the world corporate tax rate and all this
inversionreversiongive usyourour money! talk . . .and the world will know that America is open for business!
Nothing a little UBI won’t fix.
See, they have a solution for every problem create. That solution is always a worse idea, but then they need to continue to create demand for their solutions.
Sorry, “solutions”.
Jerry Brown doesn’t make economic sense either yet, there he is.
Democra, the “caring” kaiju. Sure, it stomps your home to the ground, but it feels bad and will try to help you again next time.
By stomping your home to the ground.
More welfare dependents, more Democrat votes.
vote demo quack 2016!!11!!
Now I have the Gamera song stuck in my head.
Gamera is really neat, he is filled with turtle meat, we all love you Ga mer aaaa.
What’s the breaking of five hundred eggs in the Yuge Grand Scheme of things!
Forward To The Future!
Supply and Demand — it’s not just a good idea.
It’s the LAW.
Once again, any publicly-traded company with operations in California should be facing shareholder revolts, pronto…
Next year Brown and the CaLege will bring forth a law mandating life at hard labor for anyone replacing human workers with technology. And also for anyone failing to work.
The hard labor will consist of guarding all the people sentenced to life at hard labor.
And the Singularity will be achieved — prog style.
UTOPIA! MacGehee.
More like Ewetopia.