Be careful who you vote for. Last November, Missouri voters passed a statutory ballot measure by 58% to raise the minimum wage to $15 over two years and index it to inflation, and to give full-time workers 40 hours a year of paid sick leave. Opponents filed a legal challenge, but the state supreme court upheld it unanimously.
Then the majority Republican legislature swung into action, passing a law that repeals the sick leave program and eliminates the annual inflation adjustment to the minimum wage. Republican governor Mike Kehoe signed the repeal into law July 10.
Missouri Jobs with Justice, which led last year’s initiative campaign, says it will try to restore it with a measure on the 2026 ballot, this time as a constitutional amendment safe from bad faith meddling.
Thanks for nothing! I just had to miss a whole week of work because I was sick and didn’t get paid for that whole time!
Pathetic when the government bypasses voters choices. They are supposed to be working for us but thise days are over and sorely missed. The new dictatorship works under the philosophy of “all for one….(whatever I say, congress, what congress???!) Truly sad and pathetic! They all lie and they’re not even ashamed of it….