Saru Jayaraman, the leader of “Fight for 15” and the founder of the union-funded Restaurant Opportunities Center United has decided that $15 dollars an hour isn’t enough. She now says that while fifteen dollars an hour for single people, they need as much as $21 if they have a child.
In an April 28 video posted to YouTube Wednesday, Jayaraman can be seen addressing a small group of people in North Carolina and discussing California’s recent minimum wage increase to the historic high of $15 per hour. Though her organization has joined the call for the $15 wage, Jayaraman indicated in the video clip that the group has no intentions of stopping there.
“If you are taking into account child care and transportation and everything that people need to live, you are talking much higher — $17, $21,” Jayamaran can be heard saying in the clip. “So $15 is not a livable wage, and I don’t think anyone — I hope no one — is claiming that it is. I wouldn’t think that it is even here in North Carolina.”
“Fight for 15” has nothing to do with a livable wage. You see, there is a loophole in the 15 dollar minimum wage law. Unions are exempt. If a company wants to avoid paying $15 an hour, they can allow the union to come in. It’s the way unions plan on replenishing dues paying members and taking in more money to buy more democrats. That’s why the unions have been paying for the protests.
The higher the minimum wage, the more union members it will produce.