Stop Slashing Florida's Minimum Wage Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/stop-slashing-floridas-minimum-wage.html Online petition signatures en-us Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:41 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Mandy Spacek [Signature #107] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16048525?utm_medium=rss These political idiots just don't care if you work like a dog for poverty wages, it's ok for them, they get paid even if they screw things up, why aren't they held accountable! I am sickened at how hard one has to work for so little, especially in America, your country is a complete mess, and so is Australia. They like to take from the poor, and keep on taking.

]]> Sat, 26 Oct 2013 04:42:04 UTC 16048525 Mandy Spacek [Signature #106] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16045000?utm_medium=rss These political idiots just don't care if you work like a dog for poverty wages, it's ok for them, they get paid even if they screw things up, why aren't they held accountable! I am sickened at how hard one has to work for so little, especially in America, your country is a complete mess, and so is Australia. They like to take from the poor, and keep on taking.

]]> Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:44:19 UTC 16045000 Petros Kostianis [Signature #105] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14093517?utm_medium=rss It's a sad day in America.

]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:39:18 UTC 14093517 deanna bitzer [Signature #104] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12968897?utm_medium=rss I am a server and a mother of three I struggle to pay my bills as it is and now they want to cut my pay with our economy people don't eat out as often and they do not tip like they used to I think it is horrible they would try to take our pay let the politicians give up some of there pay to make the difference and out back should be ashamed for leading this I will never dine there again they have bigger problems now than servers pay they just lost a lot of business

]]> Fri, 1 Jun 2012 08:52:02 UTC 12968897 Darae Medeiros [Signature #103] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12506404?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Apr 2012 05:01:12 UTC 12506404 Kristen Fisher [Signature #102] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12438348?utm_medium=rss Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:30:51 UTC 12438348 Alan Haggard [Signature #101] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12412407?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:43:08 UTC 12412407 Debra McTeague [Signature #100] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12362299?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:55:46 UTC 12362299 jenna nation [Signature #99] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12361924?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:45:58 UTC 12361924 Katlyn O'Brien [Signature #98] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12361722?utm_medium=rss F U Outback!

]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:08:16 UTC 12361722 Cassie McElroy [Signature #97] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12361706?utm_medium=rss Ridiculous. We already struggle and rely on others to make a living, why make it harder. This will not help the economy. Just piss people off.

]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:04:43 UTC 12361706 Stephen Phillippo [Signature #96] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12354831?utm_medium=rss Make the rich richer? Restaurants will just send employees home to make $0 if business gets slow instead of paying the minimum $10 an hour. They will also hire less people because less can do more for less money. Keep 1 person running a shift instead of 5. So they don't have to pay $10 an hour to the other 4 that aren't making enough tips.

]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:18:15 UTC 12354831 Debbie Crowe [Signature #95] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12345070?utm_medium=rss $2.13 an hour is ridiculous!! I've been to restaurants where people beside us have left no tip at all.

How can anyone live on that tiny amount? Someone would have to work 100 or more hours a week just to live in poverty!!

I think they should raise the minimum to at least $5.00 or maybe $6.00 an hour.

Please do NOT pass this bill.

]]> Fri, 9 Mar 2012 03:59:51 UTC 12345070 Celeste Boyett [Signature #94] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12329386?utm_medium=rss I've worked in the restaurant industry for over 10 years and this is the first time I've had to struggle because of low income. If you pass this bill it will not only hurt the working class, it will put a strain on the restaurants, the ones who are trying to pass this bill, by spending more money on training new employees they will need to hire to replace their long term employees who will seek higher income elsewhere. Our wages should be going up, just like the cost of living, in FL!!

]]> Wed, 7 Mar 2012 04:42:51 UTC 12329386 Michael D'Onofrio [Signature #93] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12309452?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Mar 2012 07:04:05 UTC 12309452 holly connors [Signature #92] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12307134?utm_medium=rss I have boycotted OSI restaurants

]]> Sat, 3 Mar 2012 09:49:49 UTC 12307134 mourad el halwi [Signature #91] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12305888?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Mar 2012 03:46:16 UTC 12305888 Ramon Aviles [Signature #90] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12305833?utm_medium=rss You want to cut from us, honest hard working middle class americans, over $ 5,000 per year. Have you even done the math on how this will affect the economy and way of life throughout the state? How is it that we cannot touch rich people's salaries, because they will create more jobs (dream on), but we can cut from the middle class. To all you lawmakers and politicians remember you are public servants YOU WORK FOR US!!! we shall collect and fire all of you at due time...

]]> Sat, 3 Mar 2012 03:28:15 UTC 12305833 Gary Wood [Signature #89] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12305436?utm_medium=rss This bill would cause us to lose our home and default on our mortgage.

]]> Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:52:53 UTC 12305436 Victor Ashcraft [Signature #88] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12305433?utm_medium=rss Most tipped employees are barely paying their bills each month as is. Are you trying to impoverish them completely, or rather increase the homeless population? This will only further hurt the economy.

]]> Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:51:52 UTC 12305433 Lara Manetta [Signature #87] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12304229?utm_medium=rss This bill, if passed, will cost a full-time server over $5000 a year in income. Please do not hurt these vulnerable workers.

]]> Fri, 2 Mar 2012 05:40:55 UTC 12304229 Jennifer Ortiz [Signature #86] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12298933?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:42:30 UTC 12298933 Shirley McLellan [Signature #85] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12285009?utm_medium=rss These people are working very hard just to keep their head above water. The cut you purpose will just cause more hardships.

]]> Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:55:41 UTC 12285009 rachel yates [Signature #84] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12284144?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:22:57 UTC 12284144 Nicole Read [Signature #83] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12284116?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:15:00 UTC 12284116 deborah conrad [Signature #82] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12283472?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:54:52 UTC 12283472 Lisa Gordon [Signature #81] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12281873?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:13:05 UTC 12281873 Carol Gazell [Signature #80] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12281860?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:08:40 UTC 12281860 MElvina Pfeifer [Signature #79] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12281388?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:03:17 UTC 12281388 Tina Read [Signature #78] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12281274?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:36:35 UTC 12281274 rachel yates [Signature #77] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12281141?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:08:04 UTC 12281141 diane perrigo [Signature #76] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12280594?utm_medium=rss I made 1,800. less last year ( working in the same place, same hours) If you slash my wage I will not even be able to afford my Taxes ( which have tripled) gas( which is still rising) and insurance ( which has sky rocketed. ) PLEASE reconsider. Customers are fewer and tipping less because of the economy.

]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:02:45 UTC 12280594 gregory wilson [Signature #75] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12278278?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:31:08 UTC 12278278 Cynthia Wensinger [Signature #74] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12273070?utm_medium=rss Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:20:41 UTC 12273070 Constance Jennings [Signature #73] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12271459?utm_medium=rss Again, the elite don't care about the hard working people not born with a silver spoon in their mouths.

]]> Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:23:57 UTC 12271459 Cheryl Delage [Signature #72] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12271435?utm_medium=rss Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:19:39 UTC 12271435 CRYSTAL BROWN [Signature #71] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12268418?utm_medium=rss Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:31:02 UTC 12268418 seirieata givens [Signature #70] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12268293?utm_medium=rss Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:04:13 UTC 12268293 angela russelburg [Signature #69] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12261911?utm_medium=rss wouldnt that cause more of a homeless situation for an already desperate state and in turn put more burden on the long term for welfare recipiants?

]]> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:19:39 UTC 12261911 Helen Woods [Signature #68] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12260729?utm_medium=rss How do you expect an individual to live on what they are being paid now, let alone lowering it further.

]]> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:55:01 UTC 12260729 Marilyn Peabody [Signature #67] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12260588?utm_medium=rss Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:24:45 UTC 12260588 Jeanette Brock [Signature #66] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12260549?utm_medium=rss Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:14:15 UTC 12260549 Matthew Brock [Signature #65] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12258852?utm_medium=rss Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:45:48 UTC 12258852 Kasey Gallucci [Signature #64] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12255791?utm_medium=rss Stop the Austerity. don't make workers suffer because the State refuses to raise revenues Tax the Rich.

]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:44:57 UTC 12255791 Mateo Guardiola [Signature #63] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12255541?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:46:55 UTC 12255541 robert cecil [Signature #62] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12255196?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:42:12 UTC 12255196 Lois Callahan [Signature #61] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12255155?utm_medium=rss Not every customer tips or knows how to tip. We servers rely on our regulars and giving great service to new and returning customers. When business is slow servers are cut from the floor to save labor costs. So cutting our pay rate will only make us suffer more. Servers have a lot to do and deserve the $4.65 an hour and possibly more.

]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:32:17 UTC 12255155 Mindy White [Signature #60] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12254350?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:31:38 UTC 12254350 joseph guardiola [Signature #59] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12253099?utm_medium=rss this is ridiculous! tips don't have anything to do with what a restaurant pays us.does anyone passing this bill have any idea the amount of work that we do for these restaurants for 4.23 hr? about 70% of our job consist of doing work for the restaurant and not the specific guest who is actually tipping you.some of these restaurants have ridiculous amounts of side work equivalent to all minimum wage jobs if not more in some cases.we don't get tipped for that and we barely see our paychecks as is

]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:13:21 UTC 12253099 Rebecca Peeples [Signature #58] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12252057?utm_medium=rss By changing the wage to $2.13 you will cut my pay by about 20%. I doubt you nor anyone can afford that.

]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:58:35 UTC 12252057 Josh Simon [Signature #57] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12251701?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:05:13 UTC 12251701 Anonymous [Signature #56] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12250515?utm_medium=rss husband server at Disney for 20 years....this bill would be BAD for us....HELP!

]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:37:33 UTC 12250515 Robert Markwith [Signature #55] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12249353?utm_medium=rss The public today are lousy tippers. No one is going to educate the public to leave a larger tip. This would increase the cost of the meal to the visitor and either decrease the frequency of eating out or shorting the servers.

]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:00:57 UTC 12249353 jenna mcwhorter [Signature #54] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12248913?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:14:47 UTC 12248913 Anonymous [Signature #53] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12247970?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:15:48 UTC 12247970 Scott Ouellette [Signature #52] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12247867?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:51:30 UTC 12247867 Jorge CoLlazo [Signature #51] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12246817?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:55:43 UTC 12246817 Joey Mo [Signature #50] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12246766?utm_medium=rss There should be wage increases instead!

]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:41:27 UTC 12246766 Angeline Anastasio [Signature #49] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12246657?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:15:02 UTC 12246657 Anonymous [Signature #48] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12246537?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:41:44 UTC 12246537 Martha Morgan [Signature #47] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12246508?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:34:48 UTC 12246508 Susan Leonard [Signature #46] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12246130?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:41:52 UTC 12246130 Shandrea Mazany [Signature #45] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12245196?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:17:59 UTC 12245196 tiffany evans [Signature #44] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12245145?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:02:00 UTC 12245145 Valerie Feighner [Signature #43] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12243724?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:07:16 UTC 12243724 Philip Arthur [Signature #42] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12243190?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:42:59 UTC 12243190 Iranys Ikerd [Signature #41] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12242997?utm_medium=rss Minimum wage is what allows us the affordability of having health care. This cut is solely greed from the already large enough corporations. These companies that are able to afford millions in lobbyist and stick the people depend on $4.65 an hour, with the bill and takes away the little piece of mind about their health care. Greed is ugly!

]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:18:29 UTC 12242997 Anonymous [Signature #40] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12242570?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:10:54 UTC 12242570 Patricia Brown [Signature #39] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12240085?utm_medium=rss Please don't cut my pay. Also this bill doesn't help the small business just the big ones. Also if Ca., Nv., and several other states pay min. wage of 8.00 I don't think 4.65 is to much. I have been a server for over 45 years and this raise can help with my SS coming soon

]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:31:00 UTC 12240085 Jason Haig [Signature #38] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12236966?utm_medium=rss Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:44:56 UTC 12236966 Telmo Machado [Signature #37] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12235957?utm_medium=rss Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:07:15 UTC 12235957 Mary Shaw [Signature #36] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12235378?utm_medium=rss Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:39:58 UTC 12235378 Anonymous [Signature #35] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12234505?utm_medium=rss So in the last couple years, my power bill went up, cable, gas, tolls, association fees,ect. and the answer to that is to cut my wages? Keep squeasing America, keep squeasing. I am soo proud to be an American right now.

]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:34:45 UTC 12234505 Melissa Stephens [Signature #34] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12234183?utm_medium=rss Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:14:31 UTC 12234183 Douglas Mollison [Signature #33] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12231846?utm_medium=rss Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:01:38 UTC 12231846 Robert McCracken [Signature #32] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12231828?utm_medium=rss Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:54:45 UTC 12231828 Julie Klein [Signature #31] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12231822?utm_medium=rss Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:52:36 UTC 12231822 Michael Shearer [Signature #30] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12231800?utm_medium=rss Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:42:26 UTC 12231800 David Deason [Signature #29] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12231766?utm_medium=rss Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:21:38 UTC 12231766 susan holcombe [Signature #28] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12231750?utm_medium=rss Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:15:51 UTC 12231750 Heidi Parada-Machado [Signature #27] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12227441?utm_medium=rss Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:47:08 UTC 12227441 Anonymous [Signature #26] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12227125?utm_medium=rss Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:55:35 UTC 12227125 Lisa Bandy [Signature #25] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12226800?utm_medium=rss Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:08:21 UTC 12226800 Anonymous [Signature #24] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12225854?utm_medium=rss Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:29:57 UTC 12225854 Monica Rogers [Signature #23] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12225612?utm_medium=rss Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:45:42 UTC 12225612 Noah Allen [Signature #22] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12223845?utm_medium=rss Hospitality sales are at a record high in our region. How greedy do the corporate bosses have to get before someone says enough? In a percfect world, everyone would tip 18-20%, but they don't. So some of us in heavy tourist areas rely on our $4.67/hr to keep us afloat. Don't take away the the only sure income we have left.

]]> Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:00:56 UTC 12223845 Mehdi Bensoussi [Signature #21] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12222046?utm_medium=rss Florida economy is not guna do any better if they slash our Minimum wage , it has nothing to do with other restaurant not being able to open new locations. If you can't open , then you don't deserve to be a restaurant people should spend their money in. And if I was serving and taking shit from people like I was working at a mental institution. If 9.98 was enough for me , I would rather work at Walmart for the same amount

]]> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:26:19 UTC 12222046 christina nielsen [Signature #20] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12222033?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:21:52 UTC 12222033 Jennie Keppler [Signature #19] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12221921?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:32:50 UTC 12221921 Sonia Montes [Signature #18] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12221888?utm_medium=rss While many people may think that servers are making a lot of money because a restaurant appears busy.. They do not see how much we are stiffed by tourists. They do not know or may not care that we work for tips but i am undertipped and stiffed by patrons weekly. I know It is not my service i am a great server and take pride in my work. My employer then forces me to claim the tips I do not receive because I am required to claim 12% of my total sales. This bill will make my situation worse.

]]> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:15:43 UTC 12221888 tracy timmerman [Signature #17] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12221845?utm_medium=rss if you choose to agree to this bill then don't you also choose to serve yourselves at home or have less quality service .

]]> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:55:57 UTC 12221845 nathan lawlor [Signature #16] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12221826?utm_medium=rss please give ear to the voices of the hard working people in this states service industry

]]> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:48:02 UTC 12221826 Benjamin Wells [Signature #15] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12221219?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:52:09 UTC 12221219 Amanda Papazoglou [Signature #14] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12221160?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:39:58 UTC 12221160 Anonymous [Signature #13] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12221080?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:21:53 UTC 12221080 Kevin Roberts Jr [Signature #12] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12220912?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:27:36 UTC 12220912 Benjamin Weller [Signature #11] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12220895?utm_medium=rss This would slash my wages at least $240 a month, to you a politician, this might not sound like much. But, to a Student at UCF who is paying their way through college that is the difference between me eating and starving. If you cut my pay I could just get WIC like the rest of the bums here in the GREAT start of Florida!

]]> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:21:09 UTC 12220895 Barbara Johnson [Signature #10] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12220860?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:14:12 UTC 12220860 alicia daiuto [Signature #9] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12220453?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:31:04 UTC 12220453 Kristin Marpe [Signature #8] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12220448?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:30:05 UTC 12220448