Labor

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National Edition News cover for April 2, 2014 - Minimum wage hikes hurt two U.S. island economies: Workers at their sewing machines on the main assembly floor of the United International Corp garment plant in Saipan, Dec. 15, 1997. From tropical backwater to lush little loophole, Saipan, a remote U.S. Pacific territory, has made itself over in one short decade re-emerging as a bit player in the global economy. (AP Photo/Charles Hanley)

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Michigan Department of Human Services case worker Matt Goff helps a person apply for the Healthy Michigan plan on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at the department’s Ingham County office in Lansing, Mich. The expanded Medicaid plan launched Tuesday and is intended to provide health insurance for hundreds of thousands more low-income adults. (AP Photo/Emma Fidel)

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Michigan Department of Human Services case worker Matt Goff helps a person apply for the Healthy Michigan plan on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at the department’s Ingham County office in Lansing, Mich. The expanded Medicaid plan launched Tuesday and is intended to provide health insurance for hundreds of thousands more low-income adults. (AP Photo/Emma Fidel)

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Chris Wahmhoff, far right, of Kalamazoo, makes a statement about raising minimum wage during a rally, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, outside of the office of Congressman Fred Upton on South Kalamazoo Mall in Kalamazoo, Mich. About 20 community members participated the rally for raising minimum wage and reacting to climate change. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Junfu Han) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT.

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Volunteer representative Olivia Gilbert, from Organizing for Action's Grand Rapids chapter, far right, makes a speech about climate change during a joint rally for raising minimum wage and reacting to climate change, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, outside of the office of Congressman Fred Upton on South Kalamazoo Mall in Kalamazoo, Mich. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Junfu Han) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT.

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John Sebolt poses for a portrait during a joint rally for raising minimum wage and reacting to climate change, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, outside of the office of Congressman Fred Upton on South Kalamazoo Mall in Kalamazoo, Mich. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Junfu Han) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT.

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President Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, about the Affordable Care Act. The deadline to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act passed at midnight Monday night. (Associated Press)

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Gloria Weberg, from St. Joseph, Mich., joins residents during a minimum wage rally outside the district offices of U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., in St. Joseph, Mich., Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Raise Michigan needs to gather 258,000 valid signatures by late next month to put before the Legislature a measure that would gradually raise the state's minimum wage from $7.40 to $10.10 an hour by 2017 and automatically increase it with inflation in future years. (AP Photo/The Herald-Palladium, Don Campbell)

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Residents gather during a minimum wage rally outside the district offices of U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., in St. Joseph, Mich., Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Raise Michigan needs to gather 258,000 valid signatures by late next month to put before the Legislature a measure that would gradually raise the state's minimum wage from $7.40 to $10.10 an hour by 2017 and automatically increase it with inflation in future years. (AP Photo/The Herald-Palladium, Don Campbell)

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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Nora Milligan looks through a pile of legal healthcare documents before an interview at her home in Patchogue, N.Y. Milligan, a single mother, fought healthcare providers in court for denial of care to her heroin-addicted son. Having exhausted her finances for his care, she continues to live in the home she raised him even as it is being foreclosed. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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FILE - In the Jan. 10, 2012, file photo, AFSCME president Danny Homan speaks during a rally organized by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund after Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad's Condition of the State address at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. The longtime leader of Iowa’s largest public employees union, Homan said he was outraged to learn about the executive branch’s widespread but little-known practice of barring some fired workers from ever returning to state government. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

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CORRECTS DATE TO MARCH 31 INSTEAD OF MARCH 30 - In this Monday, March 31, 2014 photo, hundreds of University of Michigan students wait outside the Michigan Union overnight for tickets to see President Barack Obama speak on campus, Wednesday in Ann Arbor, Mich. Obama plans to visit the school to discuss his proposal to raise the national minimum wage. (AP Photo/The Ann Arbor News, Courtney Sacco) LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT

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CORRECTS DATE TO MARCH 31 INSTEAD OF MARCH 30 - In this Monday, March 31, 2014 photo, University of Michigan students Melissa Strauss, left, and Jillian Goldberg wait outside the Michigan Union overnight for tickets to see President Barack Obama speak on campus, Wednesday in Ann Arbor, Mich. Obama plans to visit the school to discuss his proposal to raise the national minimum wage. (AP Photo/The Ann Arbor News, Courtney Sacco) LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT

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CORRECTS DATE TO MARCH 31 INSTEAD OF MARCH 30 - In this Monday, March 31, 2014 photo, University of Michigan students Madeleine Tayer and Andy Gong sit back to back on their laptops as hundreds of students wait outside the Michigan Union overnight for tickets to see President Barack Obama speak on campus, Wednesday in Ann Arbor, Mich. Obama plans to visit the school to discuss his proposal to raise the national minimum wage. (AP Photo/The Ann Arbor News, Courtney Sacco) LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT

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CORRECTS DATE TO MARCH 31 INSTEAD OF MARCH 30 - In this Monday, March 31, 2014 photo, hundreds of University of Michigan students wait outside the Michigan Union overnight for tickets to see President Barack Obama speak on campus, Wednesday in Ann Arbor, Mich. Obama plans to visit the school to discuss his proposal to raise the national minimum wage. (AP Photo/The Ann Arbor News, Courtney Sacco) LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT

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CORRECTS DATE TO MARCH 31 INSTEAD OF MARCH 30 - In this Monday, March 31, 2014 photo, University of Michigan student Sean Corcoran sits on a couch in Regent's Plaza as hundreds of students wait outside the Michigan Union overnight for tickets to see President Barack Obama speak on campus, Wednesday in Ann Arbor, Mich. Obama plans to visit the school to discuss his proposal to raise the national minimum wage. (AP Photo/The Ann Arbor News, Courtney Sacco) LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT