Posts tagged wage mandate
More than 100 Oklahoma lawmakers oppose SQ 832
June 1, 2026 // Under SQ 832, after the minimum wage is more than doubled, the mandate would continue to grow at a rapid annual pace based on increases in the cost of living in the nation’s largest urban centers, as measured by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers. That would effectively tie Oklahoma’s wage mandate to the cost of living in places like New York City or San Francisco. As a result, while SQ 832 would initially mandate that entry-level jobs pay $15 an hour in 2029, an analysis by The State Chamber of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Farm Bureau found SQ 832 would put Oklahoma’s minimum wage on a fast track to $35.61 per hour and continue rising thereafter.
Rachel Greszler: The New Right wants to help workers. Its labor policy will hurt them
May 13, 2026 // Wage mandates reduce employment, particularly among younger and less experienced workers. Sectoral bargaining risks cartelizing labor markets, reducing competition, and innovation. Legislation such as the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would impose binding arbitration on employers, and the Warehouse Worker Protections Act, which would dictate warehouse operations, may aim to help a subset of workers. But the actual outcome would be less growth, reduced flexibility, and a step toward central planning: a guaranteed way to suppress and impoverish workers — just ask the former Soviet Union and East Germany. The Right is right to care about workers, not just for the economic benefits, but because work is a primary source of human dignity.
Labor Day 2023: Here’s a principled way for workers ‘to make their own choices’
September 1, 2023 // The best way to help workers and families is to remove barriers to their freedom and opportunity, instead of erecting new ones. That means empowering workers to make more of their own choices instead of letting bureaucrats and union officials control what they earn, where they work, and how our economy functions. Workers don’t need more leaders who advocate the failed ideas of the past. They deserve leaders who respect their role as the protagonists in their own and their families’ lives and will deliver better jobs, bigger paychecks, and a brighter future.
Trust the Experts: Economists Across Board Say Min Wage Hike Would Spike Inflation
April 28, 2022 // Nearly 80 percent of studies conducted since 1992 found that an increased minimum wage decreases the level of employment. Michael Saltsman, the managing director of the Employment Policies Institute, said Democrats have pushed for a $15 minimum wage even as economists warn it will decimate jobs.