The healthcare workers union that successfully placed a minimum wage increase on the November statewide ballot formally withdrew the proposal Thursday, two months after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a similar plan into law .
“We think the law that was passed is a really good law,” said Steve Trossman, a spokesman for the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers and one of the initiative’s official proponents.
Days after the SEIU-UHW measure qualified for the ballot in March, Brown and lawmakers announced their own deal on a plan to boost the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour . That law will gradually raise low-wage paychecks over the next five years.
Trossman believes the union’s success at gathering signatures on its own proposal sparked lawmakers to take action .
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