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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: FLA on track to SLASH minimum wage from $4.65 to **$2.13** for tipped-income workers [View all]nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)21. they're acutally using the "base rate" argument to say workers won't "feel" it.
but any way you slice it it's reducing income for working poor families.
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BREAKING: FLA on track to SLASH minimum wage from $4.65 to **$2.13** for tipped-income workers [View all]
nashville_brook
Feb 2012
OP
districts have been drawn to make it impossible for the majority to be represented
nashville_brook
Feb 2012
#59
Other states have similar problems. Massachusetts, for example, pays only $2.63 to tipped workers.
DirkGently
Feb 2012
#78
And Massachusetts replaced a Kennedy with a Teabagger. Pointless to state bash.
DirkGently
Feb 2012
#63
we need more progressives engaged at the state level -- it's where the action is.
nashville_brook
Feb 2012
#29
Hopefully this will go the way of privatizing the prisons. Absolutely awful..n/t
monmouth
Feb 2012
#3
the Supreme Court gave you Bush. If the votes had been counted, we elected Gore.
nashville_brook
Feb 2012
#11
Republicans are also looking to strip rail & transportation workers of minimum wage....
lib2DaBone
Feb 2012
#8
The irony is, this penalizes those who provide better service and get more tips.
TheWraith
Feb 2012
#9
Nice numbers, that's really eye opening, they're punishing the good servers for sure.
joshcryer
Feb 2012
#13
what's amazing is that the people who patronize restaurants either don't know or don't care
nashville_brook
Feb 2012
#48
they're acutally using the "base rate" argument to say workers won't "feel" it.
nashville_brook
Feb 2012
#21
another aspect is that few of these jobs have benefits. no sick days, no healthcare, no vacation...
nashville_brook
Feb 2012
#25
If I lived and ate out in Florida I would be very wary what was in my food if it passes.
RegieRocker
Feb 2012
#35
In Greece Min wage got cut 22% why did anyone thing it wouldnt happen here?
Katashi_itto
Feb 2012
#45
this is the best, most informed comment on Florida I've seen casually on the internets...
nashville_brook
Feb 2012
#54
"...I get really tired of dealing with the fact that the very worst in people is celebrated here."
Lost-in-FL
Feb 2012
#58
The whole tipping thing just seems to be to be a slap in the face of serving staff.
madinmaryland
Feb 2012
#81