Mayor Ed Lee calls for raising San Francisco minimum wage
Source: San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate
Statement just now from Mayor Ed Lee:
“San Francisco is an expensive place for working families. I believe the time has come to bring an increase in the minimum wage to the voters, and I will support a ballot initiative in 2014 that significantly raises the minimum wage to help San Francisco’s lowest paid workers keep pace with rising consumer costs.
“I will work closely with the Board of Supervisors, large and small businesses, other employers, nonprofit organizations, labor partners, and those who represent working families to make sure we do this in a way that is fair, supports our businesses and boosts wages for working people.
“The national debate stirred by fast food chain employees across our country for a $15 per hour minimum wage is worth evaluating, and I will ask this group for a thoughtful analysis of how an increase in the rate will affect our economy, businesses and workers.
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San Francisco voters must approve the increase.”
Read more: http://blog.sfgate.com/bottomline/2013/12/10/ed-lee-calls-for-raising-sf-minimum-wage/
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... isn't THAT a unique idea! I've been thinking allot about the injustice of the whole "low wage" problem in this country. When a Corp runs its company on part-time workers (to get out of paying them any kind of benefits), then the company should be forced to pay them double their part-time wage. We need to pay them a LIVING wage, for Christ's sake. And since childcare is higher than a woman's wage, then childcare should be subsidized to help them out. 
