(May 14, 2014 at 2:02 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Do you seriously think that outside the very skilled labor market that potential employees have any where near the negotiating power of employers? The employer-employee relationship is by it's very nature an inequitable one.
A living wage restricts an employees negotiating power in a certain respect. CBO said raising the minimum wage would lift some out of poverty at the expense of eliminating some jobs. The consequence is you might be working Walmart and making a living wage in a job that makes you miserable....with no alternative except unemployment and the poverty such a state brings.
