Thousands in St. Louis likely to see wage drop with new law

[DonViejo]

By Jim Salter?|?AP August 26 at 12:22 PM

ST. LOUIS — Thousands of workers in St. Louis will likely see smaller paychecks starting Monday, when a new Missouri law takes effect barring local government from enacting minimum wages different than the state minimum.

The law is drawing protests in St. Louis and in Kansas City, where a recent vote approving a higher minimum wage is essentially nullified without ever really taking effect.

The impact is direct in St. Louis, where the minimum wage had increased to $10 after the Missouri Supreme Court sided with the city in a two-year legal battle. Days after the Supreme Court ruling, Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature passed a statewide uniform minimum wage requirement. The state minimum wage is $7.70 per hour. Republican Gov. Eric Greitens declined to veto the bill, allowing it to become law.

An estimated 35,000 St. Louis workers saw pay raises after the court ruling, and the city’s plan had called for the minimum wage to increase to $11 per hour in 2018.

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[logosoco]

1. I have worked for some crappy people in my time,

but this is just a slap in the face to the workers. I can't imagine having an employer say "here is a raise", then, because of an asshat Gov. they take that raise away.
I would like to think that the folks working for these companies are now slowing down their rate of work to match the slow down in their rate of pay. And that these companies get less business that means they will lose much more than the wages they should be paying out.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Small government coservatives

[TheFrenchRazor]

3. yep; they don't mind big gov't if they can use it to screw average people and funnel money to the 1%

[onethatcares]

4. $7.00 an hour is alot of money

maybe they should just issue scrip to be redeemed at the country store.

Of course the stores will be all have the ''''mp logo and branding rights.

[moondust]

5. Red state gubment dicktators.

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States have banned local ordinances on minimum wage increases, paid sick days and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. They’ve banned “sanctuary cities.” They’ve even banned a number of bans (it’s now illegal for Michigan cities to ban plastic bags, for Texas towns to ban fracking).

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/upshot/blue-cities-want-to-make-their-own-rules-red-states-wont-let-them.html?mcubz=3

[leftstreet]

6. It'll be interesting to see how many employers keep it at $10

[pintobean]

7. Unlike KC, the citizens of St Louis never voted on the increase.

It was very controversial, and probably wouldn't have passed.

[question everything]

8. Shows the effectiveness of some business groups and state lawmakers

In recent years, several states, including Ohio and Oklahoma, have banned cities from setting their own wages, often in response to a campaign to establish new local rates. But very few municipalities have been turned back once a wage was in effect. It occurred earlier this year in Iowa’s Johnson County, when state lawmakers reduced the county’s rate to match the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour from $10.10. Iowa and 20 other states follow the federal rate.

Rolling back an already-implemented raise shows the effectiveness of some business groups and state lawmakers in pushing back on a wave of municipal minimum-wage increases since 2014 that spanned more than 30 cities and counties from Portland, Maine, to Pasadena, Calif.

From https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-st-louis-a-rare-effort-to-lower-the-minimum-wage-1503857021