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$15 minimum wage supporter moves jobs to cheaper state
2015 Jul 22, 12:20pm 1,065 views 6 comments
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MisdemeanorRebel
2015 Jul 22, 12:56pm
You realize that Kentucky is a major trucking center, and it makes a lot more sense to operate a distribution center in more centrally located Louisville rather than congested Brooklyn. Not to mention the costs of leasing space for a warehouse.
zzyzzx
2015 Jul 22, 7:46pm
You realize that this person moving these jobs is a typical liberal hypocrite.
Y
2015 Jul 22, 9:07pm
i'd like to see 5 years of their tax returns to confirm the financial windfall...
marcus
2015 Jul 22, 10:30pm
DO you only read or listen to media that's owned by Murdoch ?
THere can be a lot of reasons for moving a business to Kentucky, such as transportation ( online retailer ? how many shipping hubs do they have ?), or rents.
But in any case it doesn't make him a hypocrite. If he thinks minimum wage should be $15 in NY where the cost of living (especially housing) is so much higher than Kentucky, but he wants to keep costs down for his business ?
Is it possible to advocate for workers, but still be a business owner ? Of course it is, and it certainly doesn't make one a hypocrite.
tatupu70
2015 Jul 23, 5:58am
You realize that this person moving these jobs is a typical liberal hypocrite
Only if you're an idiot and don't understand what the word hypocrite means. He didn't move the jobs so he could pay them less. He moved them because Brooklyn is in the wrong place geographically.
http://nypost.com/2015/07/21/15-minimum-wage-supporter-moved-business-to-cheaper-state/
$15 minimum wage supporter moves jobs to cheaper state
The only business rep on the board that's expected to vote Wednesday to raise the state's minimum wage for fast-food workers to $15 an hour moved part of his operations in 2010 from Brooklyn to Kentucky — where the minimum is $7.25.
Kevin Ryan, founder and chairman of the online retailer Gilt, is a member of the three-member New York State wage board, along with Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and labor rep Mike Fishman, secretary-treasurer of the Services Employees International Union.
Sources in the fast-food industry suspected the fix was in when Gov. Cuomo didn't even bother to appoint a restaurant owner to represent the industry on the board.
And they were taken aback when they discovered that Ryan's firm moved part of its operations out of New York to Kentucky, which has lower labor costs. New York's minimum wage is $8.75.
A Gilt spokesperson said the company “moved a large portion of its distribution center from Brooklyn to Louisville . . . This move reduced the delivery time to most parts of the country . . . The headquarters of Gilt remain in Manhattan.”
The company says it pays substantially above minimum wage, plus benefits, to its Kentucky workers.
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