San Antonio City Manager Recommends Raising Minimum Wage For City Employees to $13 Per Hour
San Antonio City Manager Sheryl Sculley announced recommendations today to raise the minimum wage for all city employees to $13 per hour starting next fiscal year.
“We have proposed a minimum of $13 per hour entry wage in the FY 2016 Proposed Budget, and if the City Council adopts it, it will be effective Jan. 1,” Sculley said in a news release.
The increase is a victory advocacy groups such as the COPS/Metro Alliance, which has lobbied the City of San Antonio to increase minimum wages for its workers for over a year.
Robert Cruz, a COPS/Metro leader, said he was “elated” when he heard of the wage increase.
“It was because of our concerted effort. We’ve communicated with all the council members, and I think Mayor [Ivy] Taylor saw that the budget would sustain the rate increase,” Cruz told the San Antonio Current. “Everything came together. We’ve been very methodical, we’ve been very patient and we’ve been very persistent.”
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Cross-posted in the Omaha Steve's Labor Group.
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