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Industrial Banner headlines, June 13, 1919
Marx, 1867: âCapital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.â
Capitalist class in 2020:
"If you can be asleep and still make money, you're stealing that wealth from someone else"
- me
$15 minimum wage bill in crisis: the Charm City capitalist class smiles with glee
Yesterday, Democratic Mayor Catherine Pugh showed that she was, like the Baltimore Sun, on the same side as the Charm City capitalist class. Yvonne Wenger of the Sun reported today (âPugh vetoes wage hikeâ) that Pugh vetoed the $15 an hour wage increase, by 2022, putting the measure in question and that Councilman Edward Reisinger, shown in the picture above, said that he would not support a veto override because of Pughâs reasoning (it will cost the city $116 million over seven years her administration claims) and the cityâs âoutstanding fiscal challengesâ such as a deficit of $20 million, budget shortfall of $130 million for city schools, and spending associated with the DOJ decree related to police brutality in the city. While there is no doubt that the city is facing such challenges, it seems that those are being solved to some extent, perhaps not by the correct means (âDeal may deliver funds to City Schools,â Baltimore Sun), but such challenges are no reason to throw the proletariat under the bus and set it on fire. Wenger goes on to say that Pugh was worried of the plight of employers from the city, making it âharderâ for certain workers to get jobs, and said that she is fine with the state increase of the minimum wage to $10.10. Not only does such a wage still fall within the purview of a poverty wage for the proletariat, but the $10.10 marker is a way to weaken those pushing for $15 an hour, but holding up the Democrats as a paragon of virtue, and by extension the labor movement itself. The article does on to say that the Council may not have the votes to override the veto are in question, with Mary Pat Clarke, the sponsor of the legislation, angry that Pugh vetoed this, saying that this is shameful, a sentiment echoed by another councilman, John Bullock, of West Baltimore, and Ricarra Jones, the chair of the First for $15 Baltimore Coalition. Jones argued that Pugh betrayed her campaign commitment to raising the wage to $15.By contrast Donald Fry of the Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC), who is shown in the picture above, representing parts of the Charm City Capitalist Class, praised Pughâs veto. Of course, there is much more than the Sun put forward.
For one, the Sun is not acknowledging that it holds relatively the same position as Mr. Fry of the GBC. In supporting Pughâs veto, he claimed the wage increase would have âthreatened jobs,â increased labor costs, wouldnât have allowed the city to âremain competitive for growth and jobsâ and said that the veto demonstrated âprudent fiscal management.â In a statement released after the bill passed the City Council, Fry reiterated the same ideas, echoing the Sun editorial I noted in my previous post, arguing that the âconcerns expressed by the business communityâ and others were being ignored, claiming that the law would âplace Baltimore at a serious competitive disadvantageâ and would mean the payment of âmillions of dollars in higher labor costs annually.â This is not one bit surprising even as the bill was âwatered downâ to pass the council. The increase in the wage would be gradual, staying at current levels until 2019, when the wage would increase to $11.25, then to $12.50 the following year, $13.75 the year after that, and finally $15.00 by 2022, where it would stay from then onward. Hence, while $15 an hour is roughly a living wage in Charm City (depending on the number of people working and family supported, living wages range from $12.81 to $39.85) the proposal is fundamentally a moderate one due to the gradual wage increase. This would give the Charm City Capitalist Class and petty bourgeoisie (who doesnât have to comply with the provisions until 2026) in the city long enough to âadjust.â Even tipped employees are partially exempted with employers allowed to consider tips part of workerâs wages if they receive a âminimum cash wageâ (if you subtract the wage amounts and the âtip creditâ ($2.77) year by year) of $8.55 in 2019, $9.73 in 2020, $10.98 in 2021, and $12.23 in 2022. While this is harsh and cruel as tipped workers have less pay, lest us not forget that the law allows the minimum wage to increase beyond $15.00 based on a âcost of living as measured by the percentage increaseâ based on the Consumer Price Index or other indexes, with the amount determined by the wage commission. Still, this moderation of the law is, at minimum, troubling. That doesnât mean that we canât give it critical support but that we should push for a better, law without varied exemptions for tipped workers (probably to appease the restaurant industry), full-time students, employees with disabilities, employees under age 21, and those working at the Maryland Zoo, to name a few.
With the Charm City Capitalist Class winning this round with the help of Pughâs veto and the âpaper of record,â the Sun, we should not despair. The Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, the Restaurant Association of Maryland, the Greater Baltimore Committee, and members of the petty bourgeoisie, should not be allowed to win. In terms of a higher wage, I guess it is good that some members of the petty bourgeoisie back a higher wage, like the head of BâMore Organic, while they are critical. Maybe Pugh did veto the measure because she is a member of the petty bourgeoisie herself, but more likely she is afraid of the âflightâ of bourgeoisie from the city and wants to appease them in whatever way possible so they will âstay.â There needs to be a push to improve the state of the proletariat in Charm City and in Maryland as a whole, even if the Democrats wonât stand by their side as with the 12-member City Council coalition falling apart as we speak meaning that they canât overturn Mayor Pughâs anti-wage, pro-business veto. We cannot trust the Democrats, and obviously not the Republicans such as the Governor Larry Hogan, to support the proletariat so there needs to be more independent politics in the state breaking free of the party strictures in the âOld Line State.â Otherwise the proletariat and the masses as a whole will continue to suffer.

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