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Article: Panel OKs minimum-wage increase; Measure mainly pits business groups against DFLers and labor unions.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 8, 2001
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The perennial legislative battle over the state's minimum wage got underway Wednesday as the Senate Jobs, Housing and Community Development Committee approved an increase from $5.15 an hour, which is the current federal minimum, to $6.15.
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Randy Kelly, DFL-St. Paul, said the DFL-controlled Senate probably will pass it. And he promised to fight hard for enactment even though the bill stands almost no chance of passing the Republican-controlled House.
Kelly noted that the Legislature managed to get a state minimum-wage increase signed by a reluctant Gov. Arne Carlson in 1997, the last time it was increased, by linking it to a Carlson proposal to ...