Minimum wage and American Samoa

[808blogger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LaPGIIAyk4

I wonder what the migration statistics are for samoans to hawaii since this has occurred.

[Kelena]

The above video has to do with two canneries in American Samoa. One cannery, Chicken-of-the-Sea objected when the Samoan exemption was removed from minium wage experts and they were forced to pay their 2,000 employees 50 cents more per hour to meet the minimum. In disgust, Chicken-of-the-Sea threw these people out of work and left the island. They went to Georgia where they invested $20 million dollars......$20 MILLION dollars in an automated plant that employs fewer people.

Starkist, unphased, remained on the island.

I won't buy Chicken-of-the-Sea again.

Samoan emigration is undoubtedly up as a result of the tragic tsunami and, perhaps, the unfortunate and unpatriotic closing of this plant in favor of a $20 million plant run by robots.

All the more reason to catch your ahi in Hawaii, if possible, and to reduce your mercury intake in any case.

[Guest]

Look at our speeker of the house, NANCY P and see where she stands on this matter, The Dem's will save us all, NOT.

The Lack

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[Rob Tucker]

Sorry Tom, Partisan back biting is for some other site. You should know better.

Assume the best and ask questions.

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[mdd7000]

2,000 employees 50 cents more per hour to meet the minimum...

That be be an extra $8,000 per day. Figure 260 working days per year (52 weeks x 5 days per week) and that is $2.08 million extra in wages in one year.

Raising the minimum wage will always result in fewer jobs as it forces companies to look for more efficiency to stay profitable. The minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage for a family. It was designed to level the playing field between companies and provide a basic wage for unskilled and entry level workers.

[808blogger]

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SLASH ahhh ahhh he'll save everyone of us...


LOL

[808blogger]

Danger with the social darwinism talk. There is another word for that, its called eugenics.

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I guess,proving Darwin's theory,the weakest min.wage workers will die

and the stronger minimum wage breed develops,who manage to survive

the starvation.

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[PaulW]

Sorry, what was the Hawaii connection?

Try to keep it local.

[mdd7000]

They are moving here as a result?

[808blogger]

You cannot possibly figure out how this has a local connection? not even a little?

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Originally posted by PaulW

Sorry, what was the Hawaii connection?

Try to keep it local.

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