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(99,618 posts) Wed May 27, 2015, 07:54 PM May 2015

On July 1st Tiny Emeryville California Will Have Highest Minimum Wage In U.S.

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http://laborradio.org/2015/05/on-july-1st-tiny-emeryville-california-will-have-highest-minimum-wage-in-u-s/

Posted: May 27, 2015 by laborradio

By Doug Cunningham

On July 1st workers in the California small city of Emeryville will have a $14.44 an hour minimum wage, with wait of years to get there. Emeryville’s city council voted to raise the minimum and make it effective this summer. The Los Angeles City Council recently voted for a $15 minimum wage, but it will be phased in over several years. Emeryville is near Oakland. Right now Oakland and San Francisco are tied for the highest minimum wage in the U.S. at $12.25 an hour. Emeryville’s city council and mayor believe that if you work full-time, you shouldn’t need public assistance to survive.

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On July 1st Tiny Emeryville California Will Have Highest Minimum Wage In U.S. (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2015 OP

This is really awesome marym625 May 2015 #1

marym625

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1. This is really awesome

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Wed May 27, 2015, 08:02 PM

May 2015

I am proud to say that my friend, Amy Dean, the youngest and first female head of the AFL-CIO western division, is the one that got the minimum wage hiked to $10 per hour back in the late 90s.

She co-authored the book, The New, New Deal She still works her ass off for unions and the American workers

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