× St. Louis minimum wage to revert from $10 to $7.70
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens says he will let a bill repealing a St. Louis minimum wage become law without his signature.
The decision announced Friday by Greitens means St. Louis’ $10-an-hour minimum wage that has been in place since early May will come to an end Aug. 28 when new Missouri laws take effect.
The minimum wage in St. Louis had been scheduled to rise to $11 in January under the local ordinance passed in 2015. That’s significantly higher than Missouri’s minimum wage of $7.70 an hour.
A bill passed by Missouri’s Republican-led Legislatures prohibits local minimum wages and nullifies any already in effect.
Greitens says he supports overturning the St. Louis wage. But he says he was frustrated lawmakers had failed to stop it before it took effect.
cardsash on July 4th, 2017 at 15:13 UTC »
This is the same Governor cut $7.4 million from my college alone earlier this year.
adlerchen on July 4th, 2017 at 14:49 UTC »
Any St. Louis comrades here should be out in the streets agitating and framing this as not a republican vs democrat thing, but a rich vs working class thing.
dls2016 on July 4th, 2017 at 14:49 UTC »
According to the governor, if the minimum wage is not lowered, then "it will take money out of people’s pockets."
Try arguing with that logic!