The Seattle City Council’s descent into the far-Left pocket of the region’s labor unions became even more obvious yesterday, with the unanimous approval of the so-called ‘secure scheduling’ ordinance. It is expected Mayor Ed Murray will waste no time signing it into law, which will put the city in charge of determining how select businesses schedule and hire their employees – under threat of government fines.
Seattle will then join kindred spirit San Francisco in being the only U.S. cities which have been so seduced by big labor’s campaign dollars that it will heap anti-business regulation on top of anti-business regulation, all in the name of being “progressive.”
For the city council members, none of whom have much to speak of in terms of private sector experience, let alone running a business, it’s about power and ideological purity , As the Puget Sound Business Journal reported, “Before the vote, councilwoman Lorena González addressed the rest of the council and the packed chambers explaining how the new regulations will shift the power to employees and help fight income inequality. ‘It is meaningless, in my view, to have the nation’s highest minimum wage, if you only get to work five hours next week,’ she said. ‘That is not income equality.’ ”
The fact that the ordinance puts targeted city businesses at a competitive disadvantage, and makes them more susceptible to union organizing attempts to get out from under the law, was of little concern to Seattle’s electeds. Well-connected – and well-funded – labor unions, like SEIU, demanded the new law, and the council members who they helped put in office were more than willing to comply.
Some businesses tried to provide private-sector perspective about the unintended consequences of the new law, mainly that some part-time workers will lose hours, if not their jobs. Again, from the PSBJ, “Restaurant leaders have criticized the law as ‘just absurd,’ and suggested it will punish the same people it seeks to protect.”
But for the Seattle City Council, the main jobs they seek to protect are their own, so helping their union friends with a new law was a small price to pay.
It sounds like the old Saying of a not too distant past “Please turn out the lights ” when the last business leaves Seattle. Income equality is a myth.
Seattle will then join kindred spirit San Francisco…
These cities’ many anti-business regulations must just be killing small businesses, like restaurants.
(Which reminds us — what two American cities have the largest number of restaurants, per capita, in the country?)
You seem to still be operating under the delusion that Seattle’s (and San Francisco’s) economy is somehow the result of liberal economic policies, yet you are utterly unable to cite a single specific one. Tell us, what liberal economic policy gets credit for the number of restaurants in Seattle? What local policy made Amazon the world’s largest retailer? The same one that led Bill Boeing to start making airplanes? Just like a liberal, take credit for others successes while trying to shift blame for your failures away from yourself.
Best comment. The only reason these cities haven’t succumbed to the weight of their own idiocy is the sheer amount of money circulating around from these huge companies.
It’s always fun, watching you people try to explain why your sneering critiques of liberal policies never seem to have any reality to support them. It reminds me of the Cold War, asking East German Communists why real people were so eager to flee to West Berlin.
Have you guys any idea why the conservative and Republican areas of Washington state have unemployment rates higher than our national average, while Seattle’s unemployment rate has led Washington state’s declining unemployment rate for five years now?
What local policy made Amazon the world’s largest retailer?
That would be then-Mayor Schell’s sweetheart deal for the PacMed building, which helped Amazon get prime real estate for some really, really low rates, right at a critical juncture in it’s growth.
While fools and dupes
“sweetheart deal”
That sounds more like corruption than an economic policy. Although when it’s the only successful leftist economic policy, I guess you have to go with corruption every time. Was the Choppster’s daughter the “sweetheart” of that deal, or was that before her time at the trough?
That sounds more like corruption than an economic policy.
If you’d bothered to read the link you’d demanded I supply, you’d have seen the deal was cleared by the State Auditor, much to the annoyance of the reporter, who’d clearly wanted a juicy scandal of the type you’re groundlessly claiming.
But I accept your thanks for answering your question. You’re welcome. (And since I was a Seattle taxpayer for the entire time Amazon occupied PacMed, you can retract your false claim about me taking credit for something I didn’t do.)
“the deal was cleared by the State Auditor”
Do you mean a State Auditor like Troy Kelley (D)? Now there’s a guy that knows corruption when he sees it, and then wants a piece of the action. Unless you were feeding at the PacMed trough along with the Choppster’s daughter, you didn’t do anything to take credit for. Foolishly giving your money to be squandered isn’t an accomplishment.
Do you mean a State Auditor like Troy Kelley (D)?
No, and if you’d actually read the article you’d demanded someone else find for you, you’d have known your guess was totally wrong.
Unless you were feeding at the PacMed trough along with the Choppster’s daughter, you didn’t do anything to take credit for.
Your ability to regurgitate upon command whatever propaganda you’ve been fed and swallowed is not in doubt, so you don’t have to demonstrate that talent again. (Since it’s one of your only abilities, we can understand why you’re so eager to show it.) if you actually knew the meanings of words, you’d know your angry outburst equates to saying, “if you didn’t take, you can’t take credit for giving,” which is a really, really stupid statement — even for you.
Amazon was subsidized with Seattle taxpayers’ money. That’s a fact, one which you clearly didn’t know, and no amount of your angry flailing will hide that.
Again, you’re welcome for my having done what you could or did not, and you can retract your ignorant and groundless accusation any time you can muster the character to do so.
Foolishly giving your money to be squandered isn’t an accomplishment.
Give Shift some more money. That’ll show how smart you are.
Satan’s number 1 Seattle Team of devils.
Not good. Lazy people are the one always complaining about work conditions and low pay……
Libretards turning Seattle into Commiefornia
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