$10.10 Minimum Wage Bill Passes in Maryland House:
Monday, March 10, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The Maryland House of Delegates on Friday
passed
legislation to raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by
2017.
The Senate Finance Committee is expected to take action during the week of
March 10. This is the first time that a minimum wage bill has been passed by
the full House of Delegates since 2006. "Maryland has taken a big
progressive step forward to give the working women and men of our state the
raise they need to take care of themselves and their families." said
Ricarra Jones, chair of Raise Maryland. “Raising the wage is an
economic
as well as a justice issue.” Key provisions – including indexing the
minimum
wage to keep pace with the cost of living -- were stripped out during
consideration of the bill in the House Economic Matters Committee, reported
Raise Maryland. Advocates are working to keep these issues in the Senate
version of the bill.
photo:
January 14 minimum wage rally in Annapolis; photo by Chris
Garlock