San Jose, CA votes to increase minimum wage by $2 to $10/hr

[tsai3904]

San Jose voters embraced a ballot measure that would raise the minimum wage in the city, with more than half the precincts reporting the $2 hourly increase held onto its lead early Wednesday morning.

"We're thrilled," said Stacey Hendler Ross, spokeswoman for the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council, which led the campaign for Measure D to raise the minimum wage in the city. "We always thought San Jose voters would know the right thing to do. Of course we're not counting all our chickens before they're hatched, but right now, we're just ecstatic."

Approval makes San Jose one of a few cities nationwide to set its own wage floor, even though businesses had argued the $2 hourly raise would only lead to fewer jobs.

It passed 58.9% to 41.1%.

More:
http://www.mercurynews.com/elections/ci_21943918/san-jose-minimum-wage-hike-leads-early-returns

 

[Czolgosz]

lol

 

[UpperDecker]

Oh come on! Well, at least I work in Campbell (just west of San Jose). I can't wait to get out of here.

 

[kathy88]

That's so messed up.

 

[torchbearer]

why stop there?
wouldn't it be better if everyone made a $1000/hr?

 

[CaptUSA]

why stop there?
wouldn't it be better if everyone made a $1000/hr?

Beat me to it.

 

[Czolgosz]

Put it on the ballot, I'll vote for 1k/hr

 

[UpperDecker]

Also, I can't wait for rent to increase even more now here. People need to think these things through be for voting for it, but I guess that is just crazy talk.

 

[ctiger2]

So I have a biz in CA and I can afford $1,280/mo in wages, per employee, for 20 employees. They raise min wage by 20% and I'm firing 4 people. Works for me.

 

[twomp]

I think it's population control. They want people to move out of the city I suppose...

 

[John F Kennedy III]

I think it's population control. They want people to move out of the city I suppose...

Or starve because they don't have a job.