TACOMA: Mayor’s pay proposal is disappointing
Re: "City may ask voters to choose: $12 or $15" (TNT, 7-12).
Mayor Marilyn Strickland's advocacy of a $12 minimum wage should come as a great disappointment to Tacoma's working families. She has disregarded the advice of her hand-picked commission's majority and has adopted an even poorer alternative.
Surely, having read Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickled and Dimed," she should have greater empathy for those who work for substandard wages. Instead, she has chosen to champion those employers whose business model is based on poverty wages.
This story was originally published July 13, 2015 at 4:05 PM with the headline "TACOMA: Mayor’s pay proposal is disappointing."