Tag: Chamber of commerce
Fourteen of the 15 legislative and county candidates who received endorsements and varying degrees of financial support from activist group LUCHA emerged victorious in last week’s primaries, a figure progressives...
Number of women who accuse Rep. Shooter of sexual harassment climbs
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High Court to hear minimum wage challenge
The state’s business community will take its last-ditch effort to kill a voter-approved minimum wage hike to the Arizona Supreme Court Thursday. But it remains to be seen whether the...
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Court should strike down new minimum wage law
Arizona business owners have gone to court to challenge Proposition 206, Arizona’s newly enacted $12 per hour minimum wage. They argue that the law increases the costs of government services—often...
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Chamber chief faces firestorm for calling teachers’ union ‘crybabies’
The head of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce waded into a storm of criticism after calling the teachers’ union “crybabies” for asking for pay raises. As first reported by the...
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Ducey’s budget office, legislative leaders seek to block Prop 206
The governor’s budget office and the Legislature’s new leaders this afternoon joined the business community in asking the Supreme Court to stay the implementation of a minimum wage hike...
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Last minute effort underway to block minimum wage hike
Business interests are making a last-ditch effort to keep hundreds of thousands of Arizonans from getting a big wage hike on Sunday. Attorney Brett Johnson, representing the Arizona Chamber of...
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Arizona Chamber of Commerce sues to block new minimum wage law
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce is leading a lawsuit seeking to halt the minimum wage increase that Arizonans overwhelmingly approved in November. The state chamber, joined by several local chambers,...
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Minimum wage measure faces new obstacle
Arizona Chamber to Arizona Solar Industry: Drop Dead
The recent editorial entitled “Demand-based rate strategy makes sense,” authored by a pair of local chamber leaders, seemed peculiar to me. Where might they have learned about an obscure utility...
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Prop. 123 column was long on rhetoric, short on facts
Readers last week were treated to Dianne Post’s column opposing Proposition 123 (March 24). It featured arguments long on rhetoric and legal theories outside the mainstream, but it was short...
