Organizers are gearing up for their final push in a referendum campaign to undo Michigan’s 2025 minimum wage law. They held a series of events in southeast Michigan Friday featuring actress and activist Jane Fonda to get the word out.
The law, passed last February, will raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour next year. But it will also allow businesses to pay tipped workers, like servers and bartenders, half of what everyone else makes, once fully implemented in 2031.
It replaced a policy that would have also raised the minimum wage over time. But the original version would have created one base pay for all adults, regardless of whether they make tips…