03/29/2024

$15 State Minimum Wage in the Cards? Labor Union Says Initiative has Enough Signatures for 2016 Ballot

An initiative to raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021 has enough signatures to qualify for the November 2016 ballot, according to a press release from SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, which is sponsoring the measure.

“There’s no place in California where a person can live off $19,000,” said SEIU-UHW West Political Director Arianna Jimenez, referring to the annual earnings of a full-time worker making the current state minimum wage of $9.

California requires 366,000 signatures for initiatives to be placed on the statewide ballot and, according to the release, the union started collecting signatures Aug. 10.

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