Tacoma’s City Council will hold a special meeting Friday morning to decide whether to adopt or send to voters a proposed “Worker’s Bill of Rights.”

Known as Measure 2, the initiative would raise the city’s minimum wage to $20 per hour and expand protections for workers. Supporters said the measure is necessary to address the rising cost of living and improve workplace conditions.

“Some people think that by raising the minimum wage, then the cost of everything is going to go up, but the truth of the matter is, we’re chasing the cost of living,” UFCW 367 President Michael Hines told The Tacoma News Tribune . “We’re not ahead of it. We haven’t been ahead of it in a long time.”

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