At last weeks Calaveras Board of Supervisors meeting, Chair Callaway said that tourism is now the largest business in Calaveras County.
For those who own tourist businesses, this is good news. Murphys is booming! But if you are one of the little, insignificant, mostly part-time employees, not so much!
Restaurant workers make an average of $22,000 a year! Shocked. Don't be! Most are paid minimum wage and parts of tips collected, and few work full time.
For Supervisors who seem to be bragging about tourism helping our county, perhaps they should take a closer look at the people they consider bottom-feeders, the waiters and waitresses, bus-boys and dishwashers, cooks, etc.
Bring them with you to back you up that this is the way they can take care of their families in Calaveras County. We know its not!!
You have made an excellent point. With the influx of upscale golf communities and shopping/eatiing destinations that locals cannot afford to enjoy, it is no wonder that businesses are failing. The BOS has to remember that as one of the Copper Community Plan committee members stated "we don't want our children to grow up and be bed turners in Calaveras County". We want them to have meaniginful jobs that pay a living wage. We do not want to force our kids to move.
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