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with the guests that come through the door, and they are not pressured to tip, but they want to, because they are paying for a service provided. does anyone have a knife or fork i can grab. reporter: she owns a 3wu67er shop, and two restaurants in new haven, connecticut. and they make the tipped minimum wage at $18.36 an hour, and the tips make them up to $40 an hour, and the back staff are not eligible for tips. it is a movement to get rid of the tips, and are you for it or against it? against it. and it is clueless. reporter: eight stages have abolished the tip wage which is $2.35 an hour, and the wage institution is fighting against it. it is coming out of my pocket to tip the people who are not tipping and that is going to
stephen caldeira is president and ceo of the international association that is seeking to overturn the seattle law saying they treat franchises unequality. makina howell is with the main street alliance. she s been the leader in getting the seattle minimum wage bill pass zed. great to see you guys. great to be back on, j.j., thank you. thank you. i want to step back a moment from the franchise, is it a big business or small business and talk about raising the minimum wage. makini, you worked hard to get this bill passed. why is it so important? i always believed in raising the minimum wage. we need a living wage. $9 an hour is not a living wage, neither is $7 or $2, the federal tip wage. none of us here sitting here debating this would accept that.
to help. now, you represent millions of workers literally, richard. how do you deal with that kind of opposition in washington? look, right now the american public strongly supports a minimum wage increase. democrats do. independents do. even republicans do. small business does. large business does. the religious community does. the progressive community does. everybody supports it except a couple of small groups. heritage and demint for one. and they re doing the bidding of the koch brothers. and then the hospitality industry. because one thing we didn t talk about yet al is the tip wage. it s $2.13 an hour. it hasn t been increased since 1991. and 77% of the people who get tipped wages are women. it will bring women out of poverty. it will do a lot. well ought to bring it up to the minimum wage so that when people work, everybody gets the same
the suit claimed that dominos would pay workers the minimum tip wage, $5.65, even when they did higher paid minimum wage work like kitchen prep work. on friday, the domino s delivery workers won. the settlement was $1.3 million. it will be divided among the 61 workers who were part of the lawsuit. david melton responded. we made some mistakes in our business. what he calls mistakes seem to be a common practice in the fast food business. more than four in five workers, 84% of them reported being victims of wage theft. more than a fourth report having to work off the clock.