Labor Organizers Seek Higher Minimum Wage
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Posted: 4:55 PM Sep 2, 2007
Labor Organizers Seek Higher Minimum Wage
Labor organizers seeking a higher minimum wage are focusing their efforts on Wichita.
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Labor organizers seeking a higher minimum wage are focusing their efforts on Wichita.

They want the city to pass a minimum wage ordinance.

Their ``Raise the Wage, Wichita'' campaign kicked off during the Labor
Day weekend.

The ordinance would be the first in Kansas. And it would put Wichita in the company of only a handful of cities with similar laws.

The minimum wage in Kansas is $2.65 an hour.

It's stayed the same for 20 years and has fallen to the lowest in the nation.

Labor organizers, for years, have failed to get Kansas lawmakers to support a minimum wage increase.

Lawmakers are concerned about the effect the increase could have on small businesses.

San Francisco and Washington, D.C. are among the cities with
minimum wage laws.

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