You know the more I read about Harris v. Quinn the more I wonder whether there isn’t more than concern posturing on the part of Illinois politicians’ support for increasing the state’s minimum wage. A lot of home healthcare workers, unionized essentially by fiat a decade ago in Illinois, are paid minimum wage or near minimum wage. Increasing that minimum would as a byproduct increase the union dues that are handily recycled into political contributions.
It’s called doing well while doing good.
And I’m willing to bet that the union leadership will also see more gains from the minimum wage being raised than will the workers. Because that’s how unions work, with some animals being more equal than others.
So, union leadership and politicians will get the biggest gains from raising the minimum wage in Illinois. So this makes this another day that ends in ‘y’, yes?