From the Everett Herald: Minimum wage workers will see a small boost in their paychecks this week. That’s because the people overwhelmingly approved an initiative back in 1998 to increase the minimum wage and then index it to inflation. The idea is simple: The lowest paid workers should at least be able to realize the […]
Corporate interests fail to overturn voter-approved minimum wage COLA
January 4, 2011 By 2 Comments
In a challenge to Washington’s best-in-the-nation minimum wage law, a handful of corporate interests (including the Washington Farm Bureau, Washington Restaurant Association, and Washington Retail Association) recently appeared in Kittitas County court, seeking to block a 12-cent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) scheduled for 2011. Opponents of the COLA based much of their case on an opinion […]
Seven States Increase Minimum Wage on New Year’s Day
January 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Via the National Employment Law Project Raise will Help Thousands of Workers and Strengthen the Economy Washington, DC – On January 1st, the minimum wage increased in seven states, modestly boosting the incomes of approximately 647,000 minimum wage workers in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. The National Employment Law Project hailed the […]
