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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 state's minimum wage got underway on Beacon Hill on Tuesday with both sides of the issue jockeying for support from lawmakers.
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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.
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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>