Dayton calls for $10 hour minimum wage at MSP airport

Pioneer Press ^ | 3-26-15 | Rachel Stassen Burger

[TurboZamboni]

Just a year after increasing Minnesota's statewide minimum wage from one of the nation's lowest to one of the highest, DFL Gov. Mark Dayton is pushing for another hike. Dayton told a group visiting St. Paul for a Muslim American Society in Minnesota event that he believes the minimum wage for Twin Cities airport workers should become $10 an hour immediately. "I'm going to urge the Metropolitan Airports Commission myself to raise the minimum wage at the airport to $10 an hour, starting immediately, because they earned it, they deserve it, the airline industry can afford it," Dayton said. The governor, who has long backed living-wage campaigns, said the airport wage hike would not threaten the state. "One thing about raising the minimum wage at the airport is because there's not going to be a threat to pick it up and move it to anywhere else," Dayton said. "It's our airport." Minnesota's current minimum wage is $8 an hour. The wage statewide will be $9.50, in phased-in increases, by 2016. Dayton told the visiting group that he will ask his newest appointee to the Metropolitan Airports Commission to push the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to adopt the $10-an-hour wage. Ibrahim Mohamed, an East African immigrant, is an airport cart driver who earns the minimum wage.

[TurboZamboni]

Having a hostage who can't leave seems like a good reason to do it.(sarcasm)

[Pearls Before Swine]

As if airport food doesn’t cost enough already. /S

[MeshugeMikey]

Gov. Mark Dayton is pushing for another hike. Dayton told a group visiting St. Paul for .......a Muslim American Society ,,meeting

Muslims ?

one would almost think that this minimum wes specifically FOR Muslims

wheres CAIR on this??

[Eric in the Ozarks]

$10/hour for the MSP Somalis.
Looks like old crazy eyes has cornered more registered voters...

[johniegrad]

Let’s raise wages and encourage more Islamic immigrants. Particularly sound reasoning for airport facilities.

[MulberryDraw]

...the airline industry can afford it," Dayton said.

Working hard at running out of somebody else's money.

[MeshugeMikey]

apparently He had a Beer Summit with The Great Leader!!

[Oorang]

I thought the Seattle airport was full of Somali muslim workers until I had to change planes at MSP. I was stunned. It seemed that every airport employee was Somali muslim.

[refermech]

Minny sota on it’s way to sharia in 20 years. Too bad, it’s a beautiful place.

[The Great RJ]

Gee $10 per hour isn’t near enough..better make it $20. With a $1.6 billion budget surplus Dayton and the DFL are pushing a 16 cent per gallon boost in the gasoline tax ...so much for helping the working man

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

"The pills I take are this big"