Let the people vote on minimum wage increase

To the editor:

Fellow Alaskans, please urge all senators to oppose House Bill 384, the minimum wage bill! I’m pleased that the Legislature has finally looked at the salary of a full-time minimum-wage worker and realized that a person living on $16,120 lives in

poverty.

However, low-wage workers have been disregarded for so long that they have a right to be wary when the Legislature all of a sudden sees the light and embraces an increase to the indecently low minimum wage.

Is their intention just to snatch this issue off the ballot? I believe so. They don’t want to hear the public’s loud and clear support for fair wages at the polls.

Once we vote, they can’t change the law once Alaskans turn their back.

Prevent this shameful disrespect for the people of this state. Let us vote and let legislators remember just what we said.

E-mail Sen. Mike Dunleavy at Senator.Mike.Dunleavy@akleg.gov or call him at 800-465-660; e-mail Sen. Charlie Huggins at Senator.Charlie.Huggins@akleg.gov or call him at 800-862-3878. Tell them NO to HB 384.

Betsy Chivers

Anchorage