Lansing, MI – Today, the Michigan Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit challenging the Board of Canvassers’ decision, preventing a $15 Minimum Wage initiative from being placed on the 2024 ballot.
Advocates with One Fair Wage, the group responsible for the initiative, said they are disappointed in the ongoing influence of Republicans and the National Restaurant Association on the Board of Canvassers, who have repeatedly thwarted the will of Michigan voters. Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, said they remain optimistic that working people in Michigan will prevail.
“We are disappointed that Republicans on the Board of Canvassers have continued to thwart the will of Michigan voters,” Jayaraman said.” However, remain optimistic that the State Supreme Court will overrule the unconstitutional Adopt and Amend Tactics of the 2018 Republican legislature, raising wages for nearly a million Michiganders and protecting the sacred right of citizen referendums.”
“We continue to call on the MI Legislature to listen to 610,000 Michigan voters who signed petitions for a $15 minimum wage and raise the wage to $15 an hour through legislation following the MI Supreme Court’s decision on the ‘Adopt and Amend’ case,” Jayaraman added. “Michigan workers deserve a raise, and hundreds of thousands of Raise the Wage petition signers agree: Michigan voters and Michigan workers deserve to have their voices heard, and we will continue pursuing all avenues to deliver the raise they’ve been asking for year after year.”
