Opponents say “high-dollar fundraising” matters little for their campaign to eliminate D.C.’s tipped wage.

Opponents of Initiative 82 have until Friday to request one last appeal, but they also seem to be preparing for the issue to be decided at the ballot box in November.

Progressive activists and the restaurant industry have been fighting for years over the fate of the tipped wage, and D.C. voters may again be asked to decide the issue at the ballot box.

The ruling means that Initiative 82, which would slowly phase out the tipped-minimum wage, will stay on the ballot this fall.

Election officials are scrambling to check whether proponents of Initiative 82 submitted enough valid signatures to get on the June 21 ballot.

A move to increase D.C.’s tipped minimum wage is back, but restaurants pummeled by the pandemic aren’t fighting it like they did before. Why?

The organization behind D.C.’s overturned Initiative 77 plans to hold similar strikes across the country this week.