ICYMI: Walberg Claims He Wants to Boost Wages; Votes Against Raising Wages
Last week, Congressman Tim Walberg announced an amendment that, according to him, would help boost wages. Unfortunately for Michigan workers, Walberg’s amendment is long on ideology and short on substance; rather than implement anything tangible, it creates a commission to study wage growth. Exactly how is that “boosting” wages, Mr. Walberg?
Instead of creating new commissions that hold no guarantee for Michigan workers, Walberg could just vote to actually raise wages. Except Walberg has consistently voted against raising wages, and publicly opposes raising the minimum wage, and recently voted to pay Michigan highway workers less – all the while supporting measures that allow employers to fire workers for being gay and for single women to be fired for getting pregnant.
“Empty studies and extreme ideology do nothing to boost workers’ wages. If Walberg actually wanted to help workers make a bigger paycheck, he should join efforts to raise the minimum wage, rather than try to get workers fired for being gay or pregnant,” said Sacha Haworth of the DCCC.
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Most Conservative Member of Michigan Delegation. Walberg was ranked as the most conservative member of Michigan’s congressional delegation by the American Conservative Union. Walberg received a lifetime ranking of 93 out of 100 from the American Conservative Union. He also voted with his party 98 percent of the time in 2014, with a lifetime average of 96 percent. [American Conservative Union Scorecard; CQ Voting Studies]