Democrats on the House Labor and Industry Committee on Tuesday passed a minimum wage increase that mirrors a bill filed by a Senate Republican, although how wide that bipartisan consensus truly is remains to be seen.
Asked Tuesday how much support the idea has among Republicans other than Laughlin, Dawkins said he has been speaking with several, although has received no guarantees from Senate GOP leadership.
Both bills would also peg the minimum wage to inflation in years after 2026, increasing it at the same level as the Consumer Price Index. The bills would also increase the $2.83 an hour minimum wage for tipped workers, albeit to different amounts; the Senate bill would increase the tipped minimum to 40% of the non-tipped minimum, and the House bill would take it to 60%.
“If it was up to Democrats we would do it for real, and we would have all the bells and whistles that people deserve,” Dawkins said, but at the same time “I am so grateful we had some Republicans in our Senate body that proposed a bill that Democrats could get around.” But these predictions have not come to pass, Democrats observed. All of Pennsylvania’s neighbors, including its more conservative-leaning ones, have higher minimum wages – and also saw their job numbers recover faster from the COVID-19 pandemic with“We didn’t see all these jobs move from Ohio and West Virginia into Pennsylvania because the minimum wage is higher in those states,” said Rep. Nick Pisciottano, D-Allegheny County.
The topic has been hotly debated since the last federal minimum wage increase in 2009, Dawkins said, but generated “zero movement” under the previous Republican majorities in the legislature. But some House Republicans said they hadn’t shut the door on a minimum wage increase as long as it was negotiated with other GOP economic policy items.
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