ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings and Gov. Martin O'Malley will meet with the owner and employees of a Catonsville cafe for a minimum wage rally.
The rally starts at 1 p.m. Thursday at Atwater's, a bakery and cafe. The owner, Ned Atwater, pays employees more than the current minimum wage of $7.25, according to a news release from a group advocating a minimum wage hike.
The group expects a turnout of more than 50 minimum wage supporters.
Tips
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Rep. Donna Edwards hopes Maryland will help inspire a federal minimum wage hike, but she says the minimum wage bill passed by the House of Delegates hurts tipped workers.
The bill sets the tipped minimum wage at $3.63 an hour. Currently it's set at half the general minimum wage, so it rises with general increases.
Edwards, a Democrat, called on Maryland's Senate to not "freeze" it at a dollar amount during a news conference Wednesday. The House bill would phase in a general increase from $7.25 to $10.10 by 2017.
Edwards says the restaurant industry grew even during the recession, so she doesn't believe boosting tipped workers' wages would devastate it.
She is co-sponsoring a federal bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 with gradual increases for tipped workers.
