A few weeks after one of the longest shutdowns in the history of the US, it doesn’t seem that the measure has any chance of passing through the House of Representatives, controlled by the Republicans. However, the leader of the Senate’s democratic majority promised a vote on a minimum wage increase tied to inflation by the end of the year. In a speak given on Wednesday before political representatives and members of Center for American Progress, the think tank, and the day before a new mobilization wave in the fast food industry, and while democratic MPs have written to the CEOs of chains like McDonalds or Domino’s Pizza to ask them to pay their employees better, and less than a week after more social unrest at Walmart, Obama said, “it’s well past the time to raise a minimum wage that in real terms right now is below where it was when Harry Truman was in office,” and hasn’t increased since 2009.
United States: the debate over the minimum wage increase is open again
It wasn’t the workers’ mobilizations at Walmart or fast-food chains, supported by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), that brought the debate over the minimum wage increase back to the center of the stage. However, these movements, launched last year, drove the government to express itself in favor of such a measures. Things are starting to change in several state, from the federal minimum ($7.25-€5.3) an hour up to $8.25 (€6.01) or even $10 (€7.3) in California. (Ref. 130783)
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