Raise The Wage Nebraska Collects 130,000 Petition Signatures

Increase the Wage Nebraska is able to submit greater than 130,000 signatures to extend Nebraska’s minimal wage to $15 by 2026.

Marketing campaign Supervisor Kate Wolfe tells KLIN Information, “It’s a big sigh of aid to know we’ve got hit our targets of the variety of signatures that we have to flip in to qualify for the poll. It’s all the time a stress on the finish. That by no means adjustments. We’re simply actually excited to have help from all throughout Nebraska.”

Wolfe says they wanted and estimated 87,500 signatures however they all the time wish to obtain further in case some are disqualified. This additionally provides a possibility for as many Nebraskans who need to petition their authorities, which is their proper to take action.

If all of the signatures are verified, the difficulty on the poll would regularly improve the minimal wage in Nebraska. It’s at present $9 and hour. It could go as much as $10.50 in 2023 and would regularly improve in 2026 to $15. Wolfe says after that, “It could then be adjusted yearly thereafter to account for will increase in the price of residing. That’s our object assertion from our petition.”

The petitions will probably be turned over to the Nebraska Secretary of State’s Workplace on Thursday.

The signatures will probably be despatched to the counties they had been collected from. Wolf says signatures had been collected in all 93 counties. They are going to do a verification course of and can the ultimate rely in about 40 days.