Acting Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris: Majority of Americans are for increasing the minimum wage
Fifteen million workers would benefit from President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 and hour to $9 an hour – including 299,000 workers in Missouri and 463,000 workers in Illinois, acting U.S. Labor Secretary Seth Harris said.
Harris had to cancel a recently scheduled trip to St. Louis and Kansas City to meet with low-wage workers and promote President Obama’s support for increasing the federal minimum wage, but spoke with the Labor Tribune by phone.
Harris had hoped to meet with low-wage fast food workers in St. Louis who walked out at 30 fast food restaurants across the region last month demanding a living wage of $15 an hour and the right for form a union without retaliation.
“These minimum wage workers are the most powerful, most effective advocates for this policy,” Harris said. “What we’re trying to do is avoid getting caught up in the same old abstract debate over economic policy. Helping them is not only the fair thing to do and the right thing to do but the economically smart thing to do.”
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Why the hell is this sinking on a Democratic site?
