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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn 'Craven' Bait-and-Switch Attack on Workers, Michigan GOP Guts Minimum Wage and Sick Leave
In 'Craven' Bait-and-Switch Attack on Workers, Michigan GOP Guts Minimum Wage and Sick Leave Proposals"Imagine hating working-class people this much."
by Julia Conley, staff writer Published on Wednesday, December 05, 2018 by Common Dreams
Three months after ensuring that Michigan voters would not have a say in proposals to hike the state's minimum wage and provide sick leave to workers, the state's Republican-led Senate pushed through major changes to the initiatives on Tuesday, effectively gutting legislation that hundreds of thousands of Michigan residents had demanded.
Under the original minimum wage proposal, the state's minimum wage would have gone up from $9.25 to $12 per hour by 2022but workers will have to wait until 2030 under the GOP's version of the bill. Tipped workers's wages will go up to only $4 from $3.52 per hour by that time under the Republican proposal.
The raise offered in the original proposal was meager compared to the reforms that Fight for 15 and other workers' rights groups advocate for. According to MIT, a single parent in Michigan needs to earn $23 per hour to make a living wage.
The paid sick leave proposal was supposed to allow workers to accrue an hour of paid sick leave after 30 hours of work, but the new version changes that to one hour after 40 hours. One million Michigan workers who work for the state's 162,000 small companies will also be exempt from the right to paid sick leave under the GOP's bill.
Under the original minimum wage proposal, the state's minimum wage would have gone up from $9.25 to $12 per hour by 2022but workers will have to wait until 2030 under the GOP's version of the bill. Tipped workers's wages will go up to only $4 from $3.52 per hour by that time under the Republican proposal.
The raise offered in the original proposal was meager compared to the reforms that Fight for 15 and other workers' rights groups advocate for. According to MIT, a single parent in Michigan needs to earn $23 per hour to make a living wage.
The paid sick leave proposal was supposed to allow workers to accrue an hour of paid sick leave after 30 hours of work, but the new version changes that to one hour after 40 hours. One million Michigan workers who work for the state's 162,000 small companies will also be exempt from the right to paid sick leave under the GOP's bill.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/05/craven-bait-and-switch-attack-workers-michigan-gop-guts-minimum-wage-and-sick-leave
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In 'Craven' Bait-and-Switch Attack on Workers, Michigan GOP Guts Minimum Wage and Sick Leave (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Dec 2018
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llmart
(15,536 posts)1. Michigan is not a low cost of living state.
So this is even more dastardly than it already appears. However, plenty of Michiganders vote Republican.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Sad but true
It's a lot like Missouri.
Get outside of any city and it's redstate hell.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)3. i hear they're going for another right to work bill here (Mo)
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)5. The damn GOP never lets up until it gets want it wants
Dems need to be the same.
We will need to kick their ass again!
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)6. agreed
llmart
(15,536 posts)7. Michigan needs to overturn that legislation.
Never thought I'd see the day when a state of mostly (at one time) union workers and pro-union people would allow that to happen.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)4. Disgusting.