Sentence examples for opposing a minimum from inspiring English sources

With Congressional Republicans opposing a minimum wage hike and other legislation aimed at low-wage work, labor unions and their progressive allies have found much more success on the local level.

He's George W. Bush's former trade negotiator and budget guy, someone who thinks defunding Planned Parenthood, opposing a minimum wage increase, blocking universal background checks on guns and refusing to do his job as laid out in the Constitution, to put a new justice on the Supreme Court.

Even McDonald's has seen the light: Noting that its starting wage is already more than $10 an hour — and with wages rising — the company recently withdrew its support for lobbying efforts opposing a minimum-wage increase.

Not surprisingly, industry groups oppose a minimum wage, arguing that it would kill jobs.

Mrs. Merkel opposes a minimum wage on the ground that it could hurt job growth, but a majority of Germans support it, according to polls.

Walmart has previously said that it does not oppose a minimum wage increase to $10.10 as long as it is not targeted exclusively at large retailers.

Republicans oppose a minimum wage hike; oppose Dem proposals to address pay inequity (while admitting it is a legitimate problem); and are telling women that their economic prospects can be improved by repealing Obamacare (and its protections for women).

Mike Saltsman, a research director at the Employment Policies Institute, a conservative nonprofit think tank that opposes a minimum wage increase, said Democrats want voters to think about the minimum wage and not the Affordable Care Act.

A spokesperson for Lyft said that the company's lawsuit isn't meant to oppose a minimum wage for drivers, but rather the mechanism by which NYC has chosen to create it.

That may add fuel to the fire of those who oppose a minimum wage increase as harmful to the very people it is intended to help—or those who argue that the ACA may be hurting the people it was intended to help.

He has mostly said he opposes a minimum wage hike.