Labor commissioner sets priorities for new term
– Peter Wong, Portland Tribune
More money for school-work programs, higher minimum wage, paid sick leave, pay equity.
As economic issues remain on center stage for the Oregon Legislature, newly re-elected Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian says he’ll take an active role in advancing many of them during its 2015 session…
The issues range from more state grants to re-establish career and technical education in public schools to a higher state minimum wage and pay equity…
“Families still are having a hard time making ends meet, especially those who are our lowest wage workers,” Avakian said in an interview Monday…
Among the steps Avakian wants taken are flexible work schedules, time off for parents to attend their children’s events, and a requirement for paid sick leave…
We Respond & Your Comments
OK, we’ll ask our usual question: Who pays for Avakian’s good intentions? Maybe Avakian’s families who “are having a hard time making ends meet”? Maybe Oregon taxpayers whose wages can’t rise fast enough to keep up with his compulsion to spend their money ?
Come on, Brad, you know that every one of your grandiose ideas has to be paid for by some Oregonian. And can you explain why grabbing money out of one Oregonian’s pocket to put it in another Oregonian’s pocket makes sense?
We bet Brad’s answer to the above questions would be “There just ain’t no end to the good you can do with somebody else’s money.”
During a discussion on Oregon taxes a friend asked rhetorically “How much more can they take from us?” We reckon Mr. Avakian would have answered “How much more have you got?”
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