Advocates for a living wage will be asking our elected officials to deliver on their promises and pass a living wage bill in the 2021 legislative session. But we can’t do it without support from you.
It’s time to Raise Up Hawaiʻi
Every worker deserves a Living Wage.
All by Gary Hooser
While House Speaker Scott Saiki and his leadership faction will claim the credit, this group has actually been the greatest impediment to increasing the minimum wage and denying workers a pay increase over the past four years.
How can legislators justify giving themselves a raise when they refuse to hold hearings on increasing the minimum wage?
A bill that stalled in the last days of the 2019 session carries over to the assembly that convenes in January, giving state lawmakers an opportunity to secure minimum wage legislation early in the 2020 session.
Our state legislature, dominated by lawmakers who were elected under the flag of the Democratic Party of Hawaiʻi, refused to pass legislation increasing the minimum wage, a top legislative priority of their own party.
It took the members of UNITE HERE! Local 5, 51 days to improve living conditions for themselves, their families—and by extension—all other hotel workers. There are 60 days in the upcoming legislative session that begins on January 16. Are the rest of us willing to make that same commitment to raising up all of Hawaiʻi?
