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Women's rights advocates who support eliminating the below-minimum wage for hospitality workers temporarily turned a conference room in a government building into a restaurant, as "servers" took breakfast and drink orders from "customers."

BOSTON — A battle over paying tipped workers the states minimum wage got underway on Beacon Hill on Tuesday with both sides of the issue jockeying for support from lawmakers.

Adding to an election cycle already bound to feature prominent labor-related fights, a national campaign and an influential restaurant industry group will compete for votes over how tipped workers in Massachusetts should be paid.

Lawmakers will gavel in a hearing Tuesday about a proposed ballot question that would eliminate the separate, lower minimum wage for tipped workers.

Adding to an election cycle already bound to feature prominent labor-related fights, a national campaign and an influential restaurant industry group will compete for votes<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/lines-forming-in-battle-over-tipped-worker-wages/">Read More</a>

BOSTON — A battle over paying tipped workers the states minimum wage got underway on Beacon Hill on Tuesday with both sides of the issue jockeying for support from lawmakers.

BOSTON — A battle over paying tipped workers the states minimum wage got underway on Beacon Hill on Tuesday with both sides of the issue jockeying for support from lawmakers.

Lawmakers will gavel in a hearing Tuesday about a proposed ballot question that would eliminate the separate, lower minimum wage for tipped workers, wading into a topic with clear battle lines and similar campaigns unfolding in three other states.