History Repeats Itself, A Fight For Fair Wage

In 1933, Roosevelt established the National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA). Since this bill abolishes the Antimonopoly Act, the industry can implement fair transactions, which can reduce competition and increase wages. At the beginning of the National Rifle Association, Roosevelt announced a presidential re-employment agreement. Employers signed over 3 million contracts, including 16.3 million employees. The employer agrees to work 35 to 40 hours a week with a minimum wage of 12 to 15 dollars per week. In other words, the company that signed the contract showed a blue eagle at the motto "We will fulfill our role." Therefore, Americans with strong patriotism will only buy from "Blue Eagle".

The self-proclaimed purpose of the NRA is to allow companies to self-regulate, ignore the antitrust law, and set up fair rules on prices, wages, working hours and working conditions. The President's reemployment agreement prohibits 400 hours of minimum hourly wage (small community, 12-15 per week), 35 hours of industrial workers, 40 hours of white-collar workers, and all young workers. This is an innocent attempt to "increase purchasing power" by increasing the number of people employed. However, by shortening working hours and raising wage rates, a significant increase in commercial expenses will naturally become a criterion for resurgence. After the bill was passed, the unemployment rate rose to about 13 million people. In particular, the southern part is strongly influenced by the minimum wage clause. In this bill 500,000 black people are obliged to lose their jobs.

The minimum wage of 15 dollars per hour is a long way. Pamela Frache is the Ontario State Coordinator for '$ 15 and Fair Competition' and is the organizer of the Workers' Behavior Center. Frych has led Ontario's "Battle for $ 15." In the spokespersons series of the Ontario Anti-Poverty Alliance, 'a decent income to live a wine' and the minimum wage of a 35-hour work week are still 17% lower than the domestic poverty line, Ontario's minimum wage is frozen for 12 years out of 20 years There. It is a year. (Freche & Acharya, 2017) The functional basis of OCAP is to rethink "Responsible Social Contract" again as a priority of local labor law. (Freche & Acharya, 2017) Freche argues that this "accountability system" starts with the minimum wage and never ends. (Freche & Acharya, 2017)