Mayor Muriel Bowser rallied with workers on April 14, 2016 in support of a $15 minimum wage. (Photo by Rachel Sadon)

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Less than a month after coming out in support of a $15 minimum wage at her State of the District address, Mayor Muriel Bowser has announced the details of legislation that would do just that for most workers.

Bowser’s proposed law would see the wage increase incrementally until hitting $15 by 2020. Tipped workers would see their base wage go up to $7.50 by 2022, WAMU reports.

“We have to make economic opportunity mean something,” Bowser said at a rally last week, where she gathered with union members and home health care workers to offer full-throated support.

The Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington issued a dire warning today, calling the proposal to raise the wage for tipped workers to $7.50 a “worrisome game changer” and arguing it would ultimately hurt restaurant workers. Similar legislation in other cities has lead to “an increased strain on current employees resulting in declining service for the customers while they are forced to pay higher prices for their meal,” Kathy Hollinger, the president and CEO of the association, said in a statement: “Many restaurants have explored abolishing the tip system, resulting in servers earning less than before, or if the restaurant does not abolish the tip system the disparity in pay scale dramatically rises between front of house and back of house employees.”

Simultaneously, activists have been working to get a similar initiative on the ballot in November. But one key difference is their proposal would raise the wage for tipped workers to $15 by 2024—double Bowser’s proposal.

“We want to do away with the two-tiered minimum wage system that oppresses people that work for tips,” says Delvone Michael, the executive director of DC Working Families and a co-chair of DC for $15.

The group plans to press forward with the ballot initiative. “We have to see what happens in the council. It is far from clear that they would pass the legislation as is,” Michael tells DCist.

The Bowser administration has not responded to request for comment.

But activists were quick to give the mayor some credit—and then heavily criticize her proposal.

“Already the ballot initiative has succeeded by prompting Mayor Bowser to move the wage in the right direction, but it’s just not enough and not what D.C. residents want,” Ryan Johnson, executive director of The Fairness Project, said in a statement.

“Mayor Bowser’s heart is in the right place but she’s completely out of sync with the people of D.C. on this proposal,” Gaby Madriz, director of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of DC said in a statement. “Our initiative calls for $15 for all. It’s really that simple. That means every single DC workers with no exceptions, and polls suggest that’s more popular than the mayor herself. If she can’t get the entire job done and establish one fair wage for all low-wage workers in DC, then Mayor Bowser should get out of the way and let the people act.”

And they’re confident they’ll be able to get their version of the wage increase on the ballot. “We’ve been collecting signatures at a pretty good pace,” Michael says. “We’ll certainly be able to hit the numbers necessary.” According to a January D.C. Vote-Washington City Paper poll, seven in ten District residents said they would support it