Editing Patty Murray (section)

=== Labor ===
In July 2019, Murray signed a letter to [[United States Secretary of Labor|U.S. Labor Secretary]] [[Alexander Acosta]] that advocated that the [[Occupational Safety and Health Administration]] initiate a full investigation into a complaint filed on May 20 by a group of Chicago-area employees of [[McDonald's]] that detailed workplace violence incidents, including interactions with customers such as customers throwing hot coffee and threatening employees with firearms. The senators argued that McDonald's could and must "do more to protect its employees, but employers will not take seriously their obligations to provide a safe workplace if OSHA does not enforce workers rights to a hazard-free workplace".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20190702/NEWS08/912329397/Democratic-senators-press-McDonalds-on-workplace-violence|title=Democratic senators press McDonald's on workplace violence|date=July 2, 2019|work=Business Insurance|first=Gloria|last=Gonzalez|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref>

In response to a February 2021 report by the [[Congressional Budget Office]] on the effects of a minimum wage increase,<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 2021 |title=The Budgetary Effects of the Raise the Wage Act of 2021 |url=https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2021-02/56975-Minimum-Wage.pdf |access-date=December 2, 2022 |publisher=Congressional Budget Office}}</ref> Murray said: "Today's report makes clear what we've known all along: raising the minimum wage — which hasn't increased since 2009 — to $15 an hour isn't just the right thing to do, it's good policy."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/08/minimum-wage-hike-15-an-hour-by-2025-would-result-14-million-unemployed-nonpartisan-congressional-budget-office-says/|title=CBO report finds $15 minimum wage would cost jobs but lower poverty levels|first=Eli|last=Rosenberg|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 8, 2021|access-date=February 21, 2021}}</ref> She was among the 42 Democrats to vote unsuccessfully to include a federal raise of the [[minimum wage to $15 per hour]] in the [[American Rescue Plan Act of 2021]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Everett|first=Burgess|title=8 Democrats defect on $15 minimum wage hike|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/05/democrats-15-minimum-wage-hike-473875|access-date=March 30, 2021|website=Politico|date=March 5, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>