Help for the worker
And here's another election tidbit you might not have heard, courtesy of Acorn:
The Pine Bluff Living Wage Ordinance won big with 69 percent support. The ordinance will require the city and city contractors to pay employees a minimum of $9.30 per hour with benefits and $10.55 per hour without benefits.
The Chamber and some city officials will soon begin an attempt to dismantle the ordinance. Pine Bluff is the first municipality in the Delta with a living wage ordinance. The Central Arkansas Library System adopted living wages several years ago.
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That should really encourage employers utilizing unskilled labor to flock to Pine Bluff. . .
With companies bailing out of the US to move their facilities to cheaper labor markets in other countries, it makes you wonder what kind of genius cogitated this logic - that you stem the outflow of jobs by forcing companies to pay even more to hire local labor . . .
Of course, for now, this is only your taxpayer dollars being extorted and since Pine Bluff apparently has the highest per capita income in the state and has tax collection cash laying around in stacks, this makes perfect sense. . .
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November 8, 2006 09:41 PM