Campaign for $15 minimum wage ended

[jpak]

Source: Capitalpress.com

SALEM — The chief sponsors of a ballot initiative to raise Oregon’s minimum wage to $15 in three years have decided to end their campaign.

A survey of campaign partners for Oregonians for 15 indicated a majority, including unions and other organizations, are against continuing the petition, said initiative chief sponsor Jamie Partridge.

The campaign partners support a three-tier minimum wage plan approved by the Legislature last month that hikes wages over a seven-year period, he said.

The partners “considered the bill the governor signed to be a victory, though our steering committee still believes the bill is too low, too slow,” Partridge said. “But we don’t have the organizational backing or the voters.”

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[nashville_brook]

1. you're going to see a lot more of this with a HRC presidency

the groups that do this work are also funded by political donors to HRC who have NO INTEREST in a vocal $15/hour campaign.

[tomm2thumbs]

2. yup, bingo on that one

If I were them, I'd start a new campaign at 15.25 and threaten to keep up'ing it a quarter, every quarter, and see where it goes.

Maybe they'll wish they had picked it up at 15

[Ed Suspicious]

6. I like that idea!

[islandmkl]

3. the PTB will allow $15/hr to be implemented at that point in the future...

when $15 is worth about $5 in current value...it will definitely need to be worth less than $7.25 or they wouldn't have gotten over on the working class once again...

[Massacure]

8. If we assume 3% inflation

$14.75 in 2022 will be the equivalent of about 12.35 today. $12.50 in 2022 will be equivalent of about $10.36 today. Give credit where credit is due, the national minimum wage has only beat that once (1968 - 10.62 in today's dollars).

[pampango]

4. “We do take credit for the advance, the step forward by the Legislature,” Partridge said. “One

hundred thousand workers will benefit from the bill. Legislators were talking about $10 an hour a couple of years. We would be nowhere near $15 without the rallies, marches, committee hearings and hard-nose lobbying and the 40,000 signatures we gathered.”

[pipoman]

5. State imposed minimum wage makes much more sense than a national...

It is a non issue where I am because you can't find anyone to work for 7.25 anyway, my entry level is $9 as are most places around. With unemployment at 5% minimum wage isn't an issue as it may be at 10%.

[qwlauren35]

9. I have to disagree.

Alabama's state minimum wage is linked to the national one, and they have no intention of raising it. Birmingham, AL tried to raise their minimum wage as a city and the state government shut them down, saying that cities within Alabama cannot raise their minimum wage "because of the impact on surrounding areas".

As a general rule, there are some states that are more progressive, and some more conservative. Poor people tend to get hurt by conservative state laws, and only federal laws tend to protect them. Look back 60 years ago at Jim Crow. It took federal laws and Supreme Court decisions to overturn racist state laws.

I do not trust conservative states to make laws that are in the best interests of the poor, women or minorities.

[Duckfan]

7. Damn