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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe Got 10,000 More Workers A Raise, No Big Deal
http://blog.workingamerica.org/2013/04/24/largest-new-mexico-county-raises-minimum-wage-despite-governors-opposition/
Largest New Mexico County Raises Minimum Wage Despite Governors Opposition
Yesterday, working people in Bernalillo County won a hard-fought victory as county council members passed a minimum-wage increase by a vote of 3-2. The minimum wage will go up from $7.50 to $8.50 an increase that will help approximately 10,000 people.
This victory was built on a similar one in Albuquerque last November, when a whopping 66 percent of voters passed a minimum wage increase in that city. As a result, over 40,000 workers got a raise at the beginning of this year.
Less than a month after Gov. Susana Martinez Good Friday veto of a statewide minimum wage increase (and her subsequent scrubbing her website of all mention of the bill), the people of Bernalillo county spoke loud and clear. Now, low-wage workers in the most populous county in New Mexico will get a modest increase in their wages money that will be put back into the local economy, help reduce turnover, increase productivity and improve the health of small businesses and communities.
The implementation will take place in two phases: an $8.00 increase on July 1st and another increase to $8.50 on Jan. 1, 2014.
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We Got 10,000 More Workers A Raise, No Big Deal (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Apr 2013
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DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)1. Any increase in ages means a better economy, austerity be damned
$40 a week means food, medicine, hell movie tickets to many families. More States should be as far-sighted.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)2. Great news, OS. And they need to vote that governor out of office.