It has been a great first month for the campaign. We now have over 1,000 signatures on the petition and over 25 groups have signed on in support!
Yesterday, a dozen “Raise the Wage, Wichita!” volunteers led by Maxine Coppell gathered signatures at the Wichita Senior Expo. Those in attendance overwhelmingly supported the call to establish a local minimum wage in Wichita. Click below to see pictures of the event!
For over four years, I worked as both a tip-earning waiter and as a manager in local restaurants, and I have seen countless cases of my fellow employees walking out with less than the federal minimum wage in their pockets. It is not just the “bad waiters and waitresses” that don’t make any money. It happens to the most skilled, most experienced, and hardest working peoples in the restaurants. It has happened to me, it has happened to dozens of my co-workers, and it will continue to happen unless the State of Kansas joins states like California, Oregon, Minnesota, and Montana and raises their state minimum wage for tipped employees to match the federal minimum wage.
Pre-Labor Day coverage:
Labor Day coverage:
* Eyewitness News 12 (CBS) in Wichita (with video)
* WIBW 13,
