Tucson group delivers petitions to get $15 minimum wage initiative on November ballot

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TUCSON, Arizona (KOLD News 13) – A Tucson group advocating a $ 15 minimum wage handed over 25,000 petition signatures to the Tucson City Clerk on Friday, July 2.

The Southern Arizona Prosperity Alliance hopes the Tucson Fight for $ 15 initiative will be included in the November 2021 city election.

If the Tucson Minimum Wage Act passes, it will raise about 85,000 workers currently earning the statewide minimum wage of $ 12.15. The bill would gradually increase the citywide minimum wage from April 1, 2022, until it hits $ 15 by 2025.

The Southern Arizona Prosperity Alliance is an association of nonprofit organizations based in Tucson, including the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, the Primavera Foundation, Our Family Services, the Southwest Fair Housing Council, the People’s Defense Initiative, YWCA Southern Arizona, and others. The Tucson Education Association and other unions are also part of the coalition.

The measure follows the decisions of local governments to raise wages. Starting Thursday, July 1, Tucson and Pima County’s employee wages rose to $ 15 an hour. The Tucson Unified School District recently voted to raise wages to $ 15 an hour within two years.

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