Lawmakers, not weather, may freeze minimum wage
by weel
on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 05:14
By JENNIFER McKEE - IR State Bureau - 01/28/09
Rachel Conn, 27, is a waitress in Helena. She makes $1,100 a month and
has $900 of monthly expenses. That leaves her $200 spending money a
month, although “spending” in this case, Conn said, also includes
inevitable repair bills for her old car and paying all of her medical
costs out of pocket.
The 2009 Legislature is taking up a bill today that would freeze Montana’s $6.90 minimum wage for waiters and waitresses like Conn. Any raise she would receive after $6.90 would come out of her tips.
And that, Conn said, is just wrong.
“If you think that people who make minimum wage live in this crazy black hole where (the cost) of everything never changes, I can tell you that’s dead wrong,” she said in an interview Tuesday.
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The 2009 Legislature is taking up a bill today that would freeze Montana’s $6.90 minimum wage for waiters and waitresses like Conn. Any raise she would receive after $6.90 would come out of her tips.
And that, Conn said, is just wrong.
“If you think that people who make minimum wage live in this crazy black hole where (the cost) of everything never changes, I can tell you that’s dead wrong,” she said in an interview Tuesday.
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