Bid To Raise CdA Wages Dead

An effort to raise Coeur d’Alene’s local minimum wage led by a former Democratic legislative candidate is dead for 2015, City Clerk Renata McCleod confirmed. The effort, part of the progressive movement’s push for so-called income equality, died after Democrat Anne Nesse failed to submit the required signatures by the April 30 deadline. “They have missed that deadline,” McClead told IdahoReporter.com Monday. Nesse’s plan would have hiked the local wage to $10.25 an hour through a two-year process. After that, local wage hikes would be indexed to the consumer price index. Raising wages at the city level would likely have been in vain anyway, or so warned a Coeur d’Alene city attorney in an April 20 letter/ Dustin Hurst , Idaho Reporter. More here.

Question: The bid to raise Coeur d’Alene’s minimum wage may be dead, but do you think the need is still there?