{"id":7104,"date":"2016-03-27T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/lawmakers-unions-reach-deal-to-raise-californias-minimum-wage-to-15\/"},"modified":"2016-03-27T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:15:00","slug":"lawmakers-unions-reach-deal-to-raise-californias-minimum-wage-to-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/lawmakers-unions-reach-deal-to-raise-californias-minimum-wage-to-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers, Unions Reach Deal To Raise California's Minimum Wage To $15"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Camila Domonoske<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

Lawmakers and labor unions in California have reached a deal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.<\/p>\n

The tentative agreement would end a lengthy dispute between California Gov. Jerry Brown and unions, Danielle Karson reports for NPR.<\/p>\n

Under the new deal \u2014 which still needs to go before the state legislature \u2014 the minimum wage would increase gradually over the next six years.<\/p>\n

The minimum wage in the state increased to $10 in January, under legislation passed in 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Labor unions in California have been pushing for another increase, but lawmakers weren’t biting. Then the unions led a campaign to put the question of a wage hike before state voters in November \u2014 and days ago, one such initiative qualified for the ballot.<\/p>\n

That initiative would gradually raise wages by a dollar a year for the next five years, and “impose future increases with inflation,” The Los Angeles Times reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gov. Brown hopes the new deal between legislators and unions will “preempt the need for putting a wage initiative on a ballot,” Danielle Karson reports.<\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n

Source:: http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/03\/27\/472045215\/lawmakers-unions-reach-deal-to-raise-californias-minimum-wage-to-15?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawmakers and labor unions in California have reached a deal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.<\/p>\n

The tentative agreement would end a lengthy dispute between California Gov. Jerry Brown and unions, Danielle Karson reports for NPR.<\/p>\n

Under the new deal \u2014 which still needs to go before the state legislature \u2014 the minimum wage would increase gradually over the next six years.<\/p>\n

The minimum wage in the state increased to $10 in January, under legislation passed in 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Labor unions in California have been pushing for another increase, but lawmakers weren’t biting. Then the unions led a campaign to put the question of a wage hike before state voters in November \u2014 and days ago, one such initiative qualified for the ballot.<\/p>\n

That initiative would gradually raise wages by a dollar a year for the next five years, and “impose future increases with inflation,” The Los Angeles Times reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gov. Brown hopes the new deal between legislators and unions will “preempt the need for putting a wage initiative on a ballot,” Danielle Karson reports.<\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}