04/25/2024

Why Unions Have Proposed Dueling Minimum-Wage Ballot Measures

When Sacramento voters go to the polls next year, they may find four competing minimum-wage proposals to choose from. All of them would raise the wage to an hourly $15 before tying it to inflation.

Two of the proposed measures are local and two would be statewide initiatives. None has yet qualified for the ballot.

The two statewide proposals are sponsored by the Service Employees International Union — one by its state council and another by Oakland-based SEIU United Healthcare Workers West.

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