This association shows just how far the labor unions and their political allies are willing to go to obscure the truth about higher minimum wages: They kill jobs
Emails show Seattle's coordination with activists in minimum wage research
Last month, researchers from the University of Washington informed the city of Seattle that despite the best efforts of the Service Employees International Union they had failed to repeal the law of supply and demand. Contrary to the promises of city government, the UW team--originally commissioned to study the effects of the measure by the city government--found that the union-backed minimum wage hike to $13/hour (en route to further increases to $15/hour) had reduced lower-wage employees' earnings by $125 per month.
That entirely predictable finding contradicted one by the University of California, Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), an outfit with ties to left-wing labor organizers and labor unions, released shortly before the UW research was published. At the time the UW research was published, there was speculation that the Berkeley team had been tipped off about the findings by the city government.
