Small businesses and their workers are crucial to our community’s success. While they continue to navigate many challenges post-pandemic, I’m working to ensure Michigan gives them every resource possible to ensure their success.

Track Record

• Championed the accelerated increase of Michigan’s minimum wage to $15/hour by 2027, shortening the original timeline where the increase would not take full effect until 2028.

• Repealed harmful anti-union laws to restore workers’ rights to collectively bargain for better working conditions, higher wages and safer workplaces.

• Reinstated prevailing wages on all state construction projects, creating good-paying jobs and ensuring hard-working people can earn a decent standard of living.

• Restored the right of 35,000 independent provider home care workers to have the choice to form a union.

• Eliminated taxes on tips, overtime, and social security.

• Protected and improved the tipped credit, so servers can continue receiving their tips.

• Supported the Michigan Reconnect program to provide Michiganders with a tuition-free path to an associate degree or skills training certificate.

• Secured funding for the Helmets to Hardhats program to provide job training and apprenticeships for veterans.

• Funded Workforce Development Grants used to provide employer-driven workforce training, skills development, equipment training and more to Michigan workers.