Mainers for Fair Wages

Thanks to mainers for fair wages, question 4 (the minimum wage referendum) passed by 56% to 44% at the ballot in Maine in 2016. The new law will increase wages for 181,000 mainers, more than one third of Maine's workforce. Campaign achievements include: knocking on over 225,000 doors and speaking personally with over 180,000 Maine voters; recruiting more than 90 endorsing organizations; organizing hundreds of low-wage and tipped workers to give community presentations, share their stories in the press, knock on doors, and lead the campaign in their communities; involve over 600 small business owners to become public endorsers of the campaign, placing signs in their shop windows, writing letters to the editor and sharing their stories via social media videos; (for more see sch o)