Group Set to Rally at Capitol to Support Local Control on Minimum Wage

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Fast food workers, clergy and others are planning to travel from Birmingham to Montgomery to show support for local control over minimum wages.

The group plans to meet Tuesday at the 16th Street Baptist Church and rally at the Capitol at 1 p.m.

A bill filed by Rep. David Faulkner of Mountain Brook looks to mandate uniform minimum wages throughout Alabama and prevent municipalities from establishing their own. Alabama has no state minimum and uses the federal minimum of $7.25.

The Birmingham City Council voted to expedite the first phase of a planned minimum wage increase March 1. An agenda says it could vote Tuesday to move the effective date to Wednesday.

The Alabama Attorney General’s office has declined comment on whether the proposed legislation would retroactively invalidate Birmingham’s ordinance.

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