Good day for workers around the US, the world
Today is a good one for hundreds of thousands of workers around the US and millions of workers around the world.
As of July, minimum wage hikes have taken place in Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Nevada. Tipped employees are getting a raise in Vermont starting today. Workers in South Dakota and Nebraska are looking forward to higher wages on July 24th. Kentucky workers were ahead of the curve by getting their increased wages on June 26th. Employees for St. Vincent's Health Care in Florida are getting a minimum wage hike today as well.
Ireland , South Africa, Guam, and Turkey are getting raises today, too.
posted by Jill Williams at
9:30 AM
2 Comments:
Jill, thanks so much for all the informative links and the good news.
Is there reason for optimism here? As if we're seeing a "sea change" (what the hell does that mean, anyway? what has the ocean got to do with "change?")? Blather on, Ledford, blather on.
I'm not sure there is reason for much optimism that we are seeing any kind of a "sea change" here. Most of us get regular raises each year, so while it is exciting to see the minimum wage being raised in seven states or so, we have to wonder what is going on in the other 43 and why those workers didn't get their own annual raises. I personally think that any kind of meaningful minimum wage hike needs to include a mechanism for regularly adjustment to account for inflation, etc. Otherwise, it ends up being a political battle every time the issue is raised and we have to make the same arguments all over again. The minimum wage petition in Greensboro includes such a mechanism.
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