Seattle Mayor Raises Minimum Wage To $15

Ed Murray says he’s raising the minimum wage for city workers to $15 an hour.

Today I will issue an executive order directing my department heads to develop a comprehensive strategy to implementing a $15 minimum wage in the City of Seattle for city employees,” Murray said in a news conference Friday morning.

Murray said his personnel director and budget director will lead the effort and explore options to make the order retroactive to the start of 2014. Murray has said that he’ll give his team four months to raise the wage…

“I think it’s important, once again, to remember that when I talked about an affordable city in the campaign and during the transition, we cannot, in this administration and this city … focus on a single issue. There is no single strategy to make this city affordable for low income and middle class working people,” said Murray.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.