LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Supporters of raising Michigan’s minimum wage to $12 an hour are launching a 2018 ballot drive.
The initiative was announced Thursday in Detroit by a group representing restaurant workers.
Michigan’s hourly minimum is $8.90 and rises to $9.25 in January. Under the proposed ballot measure, all workers — including those earning tips — would make $12 per hour starting in 2022.
The wage would rise to $10 in 2019, $10.65 in 2020 and $11.35 in 2021.
Organizers need roughly 252,000 valid voter signatures to put the initiated law before lawmakers and potentially voters.
The last time labor organizers began collecting signatures for a higher minimum wage, in 2014, Republican legislators and Gov. Rick Snyder approved a smaller minimum wage boost to head off the ballot initiative.
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lawton
I wonder how these people are going to like unemployment instead of low wages?
How about this, instead of complaining for the money they pay for entry level jobs become worthy of a higher position. Of course that would require taking some responsibility for your life and admitting if you’ve gone nowhere it’s your fault.