Initiative 82 will raise tipped workers' pay, but some of them say their bosses can't afford it.
The ballot measure, which is before District voters in Tuesday’s election, is a redo of a 2018 referendum to eliminate the city’s “tipped minimum” wage. If the initiative passes, minimum pay for servers and other tipped workers will jump from $5.35 per hour to $16.10 per hour by 2027 — but, initiative opponents say, they will lose shifts and their tips will fall by equal or greater measure as prices rise.
This national social reckoning made servers “aware how systems like this take advantage of people,” Hawla said. And when he talked to servers in places like which has a wage system like the one the initiative proposes, he realized some of his colleagues preferred steady pay to the unpredictability of tips.“That made me realize that I had been lied to about a lot of the things I had been told,” he said.In reliably Democratic D.C., few issues have divided the dining-out electorate as much as initiatives tinkering with tips. As enthusiastically as people like Hawla and labor organizers defend Initiative 82, other servers and restaurateurs denounce it.
Valerie Graham has worked as a bartender in the District for 25 years. She said she had to speak out when Initiative 82’s predecessor, Initiative 77, went on the ballot four years ago.Graham opposed Initiative 77, which was repealed by the D.C. Council after voters approved it, and opposes this one. She said “outside moneyed labor interests” were fueling both measures.
“The people who I feel are going to be hurt are the people that this business has welcomed and has provided pathways for,” she said. “That’s part of the reason why I’m so passionate about this.”
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