Missouri Supreme Court orders Kansas City vote on wage hike

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Source: KCTV

KANSAS CITY, MO (AP) -
The Missouri Supreme Court is ordering Kansas City to put a proposed minimum-wage hike to $15 an hour on the ballot.

Supreme Court judges ruled Tuesday that a vote is needed before judges can decide if a wage increase is lawful.

A group of citizens had collected enough signatures to force a vote on minimum wage in 2015. But the vote was scheduled to take place after the enactment of a new state law prohibiting higher local minimum wages from the state's minimum wage.

Missouri's minimum wage is $7.70 an hour.

Kansas City argued it shouldn't be forced to spend money on an election for an issue banned by state law.

Supreme Court judges say the issue must go before voters before it can be challenged in court.

Read more: http://www.kctv5.com/story/34279569/missouri-supreme-court-orders-kansas-city-vote-on-wage-hike

[Akamai]

1. Very interesting! I applaud the Supreme Court of Missouri on this issue! This may also be the way to

roll back devious state Koch Brothers' backed laws, like refusing to allow people to sell power back to power companies, like refusing to allow communities to get low-cost, high speed internet.

I think the reasoning of the Court is that the citizens do not have standing to sue unless they have suffered a loss. If the citizens pass the wage increase, and the state law tries to roll the increase back, then the citizens have standing to bring suit against the State on this issue.

[Doreen]

2. I hope they get the wage raise passed.

[Seedersandleechers]

3. Missourian here - it doesn't matter how we vote.

We voted to do away with puppy mills and it was shot down by the assholes in Jefferson City.

http://www.thedogfiles.com/2011/03/10/missouri-state-senate-overturns-puppy-mill-law-favored-by-voters/

[Seedersandleechers]

5. KC Council declines to put minimum wage increase on April ballot

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article127557834.html

[cstanleytech]

4. Queue the misleading and false claims and ads that companies cant to pay workers that much

money while the truth is they just dont want to pay the workers what they should have been paying all this time and instead they want to keep milking the workers and the taxpayers by forcing the workers to have to go on programs to get food stamps to be able to feed their children.