{"id":6065,"date":"2021-12-31T19:16:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T01:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2021-12-31T19:16:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T01:16:19","slug":"missouri-minimum-wage-goes-up-to-11-15-jan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2021\/12\/31\/missouri-minimum-wage-goes-up-to-11-15-jan-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Minimum Wage Goes Up To $11.15 Jan. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/31\/politics\/minimum-wage-increase-2022-15-dollars\/index.html\">CNN tells us 21 states increase minimum wage on Jan. 1, 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Missouri voters passed a proposition in 2018 that gradually increases the statewide minimum wage to $12 over five years. Michigan, New Mexico and Virginia adopted similar legislation with $12 goals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While $12 seems like old news now, the Missouri GOP and <a href=\"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/news\/fact-check-chamber-not-in-support-of-minimum-wage-hike\/\">Chamber of Commerce opposed<\/a> even this small hike in the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In reality, the Missouri business community is deeply concerned about the potential impact of Proposition B.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, Proposition B would raise the state\u2019s minimum wage from $7.85 per hour to $12 per hour. This change would create a substantial new burden on businesses across the state. These costs could shutter small employers, leading to significant job losses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be clear.\u00a0 At this point new unemployment claims are at decades long lows, there is a &#8220;labor shortage, and many businesses have raised wages well past the $11.15 2021 minimum wage.\u00a0 The UAW was proud to campaign for this increase in the minimum wage as well as fighting the business community effort to impose Right-to-Work on Missouri workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2021\/12\/31\/missouri-minimum-wage-goes-up-to-11-15-jan-1\/rising-wages\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6066\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6066\" src=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rising-Wages.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rising-Wages.jpg 758w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Rising-Wages-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN tells us 21 states increase minimum wage on Jan. 1, 2021. Missouri voters passed a proposition in 2018 that gradually increases the statewide minimum wage to $12 over five years. Michigan, New Mexico and Virginia adopted similar legislation with $12 goals. While $12 seems like old news now, the Missouri GOP and Chamber of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-laws"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6068,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}