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UW Tacoma students debate push to match Seattle campus’ wage

By The Associated Press
Published: October 11, 2015, 9:56pm

TACOMA — After students the University of Washington in Seattle advocated for and won a path toward a $15 minimum wage, students at the University of Washington in Tacoma aren’t sure if they will take the same approach.

A student committee expressed concerns this year about raising the minimum wage on campus. They are worried a $15 wage could reduce the number of student jobs or cause students’ hours to be cut.

Student leaders at the Tacoma campus are using surveys and town halls to gauge how other students feel about increasing hourly wages on campus.

The student body has yet to take a position on either of the minimum wage measures on the November ballot in Tacoma.

One measure would raise the minimum wage in Tacoma to $15 an hour starting in early December; the other would increase it to $12 by 2018.

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