Building Bridges:
Your Community and Labor Report - National Edition
Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
presents:
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Why We Need the Million Workers March with
Brenda Stokley, Pres. DC 1707 AFSCME;
Clarence Thomas, Exec. Bd Member, Local 10, ILWU;
Roger Toussaint, Pres. Local 100, TWU
Santos Crespo, V.P. DC 37 AFSCME
& Margaret Prescott, Global Women's Strike
The Million Worker March with an agenda of jobs, a living wage, universal single payer health care, and in opposition to the invasion of & occupation of Iraq is scheduled for October 17th at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. and its gaining momentum. SoGet on Board!
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Start a business, get some employees, THEN see what side of this idiotic march you're on. Morons.
If the demand exceeds supply, then the business can be started once the costs are less than the price at which the goods or services can be sold.
If you start a business that requires low wages and marginal working conditions, to remain profitable, a rise in the minimum wage can cause that business to cease operation. However, the increase in demand, due to more wages, will create new business opportunities elsewhere.
An increase in wages can also motivate businesses to spend money to automate, and get more productivity out of the existing workforce. Increases in productivity are a net gain to the owner. The risk is capital flight, when factories are moved offshore, where workers earn less; one solution to this is tariffs designed to protect jobs.
There are a wide class of businesses that benefit from increased wages. Generally, they are the businesses that sell goods and services to the working class, but don't hire many people. For example:
* mom and pop stores
* hair salons
* rental property owners
* grocery stores that pay well above minimum wage