So Much For The Will Of The People

[ZiprHead]

Michigan Senate votes to gut minimum wage, sick leave laws

Michigan’s Republican-led Senate passed bills Wednesday that would substantially scale back citizen-initiated minimum wage and paid sick leave laws that a business lobby criticized as too burdensome, setting up expected lawsuits if GOP Gov. Rick Snyder signs them into law before making way for a Democrat in January.

The Senate voted 26-12, almost entirely along party lines, to advance the two bills to the Republican-controlled House, which is expected to pass them and could vote as early as next week.

One measure would delay increasing the minimum wage to $12 an hour to at least 2030, instead of 2022. It would also repeal provisions to tie future increases to inflation and bring a lower wage for tipped employees in line with the wage for other workers. The current minimum wage is $9.25.

 

[untermensche]

So much for support of the working man.

How working people that are not corporate executives support the Republicans is beyond me?

For many men I see it is fear of appearing weak. Caring about your fellow man and society is seen as weakness by deluded apes.

It is a form of weakness and sheepishness in other words.

 

[Ford]

Yeah, but if they raise the minimum wage, Michigan's economy will be devastated!

Oh wait...it already sucks.