BUZZ
Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles have new competition as to who’s paying the highest minimum wage.
Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University just approved a $16 minimum wage for all campus workers that takes effect in July – quickly outpacing the $15 an hour that the liberal West Coast metropoli are phasing in over several years.
The school paid its employees a minimum of $15 an hour this school year. It said with benefits, the effective minimum wage would actually be $22 come July.
The Associated Press reported the minimum wage increase comes as Duquesne “battles its part-time faculty’s vote to form a collective bargaining unit.” The National Labor Relations Board is “expected to rule soon” on the dispute.
