Democratic Lawmakers, Advocates Seek Minimum Wage Hike
HARTFORD, CT—He wouldn’t handicap the chances of the General Assembly approving an increase in the minimum wage this year, but Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven, said he wouldn’t give up the fight because “it’s the right thing to do.”
“Raising a sufficient minimum wage in the state is not at all a luxury,” Looney said. “It is not a mere convenience. It is critically important for thousands upon thousands of Connecticut families.”
Last month, Connecticut’s minimum wage increased to $10.10 an hour, but advocates and labor unions have been pushing for $15 an hour.
However, the composition of lawmakers in the House and the Senate isn’t exactly favorable to passage. With a split Senate and a House where the majority of Democrats is so small that all it would take is four votes to defeat a measure, it won’t be easy to get a controversial proposal like a minimum wage hike across the finish line.
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