Action Alerts
Dec 27 2011
New York City’s existing living wage law applies to workers at businesses performing certain types of contracts for the city. The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act will extend living wage protections to workers on subsidized development projects. In the words of the Living Wage NYC campaign, “Every year, New York City spends billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize economic development and...
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Mar 31 2011
Action Steps plus two great new opinion pieces on minimum wage from a St. Louis business owner and the St. Louis Jewish Light:
Lew Prince, ...
Mar 29 2011
Support the Raise Maryland campaign to gradually raise Maryland's state minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9.75 by 2013. The current Maryland minimum wage means only $15,000 a year for a full-time child care worker, health aide, security guard or other minimum wage worker, which is not enough to live on.
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Feb 5 2011
The federal tipped minimum wage continues to be atrociously low at $2.13/hour. For twenty years now, tipped workers in the restaurant industry and elsewhere have toiled for a miserable wage, in part due to the fact that restaurant workers have not had a voice. But that is all about to change! The Restaurant Opportunities...
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Mar 11 2010
The Bureau of Labor Statistics International
Labor Comparisons Program is proposed
for elimination in the President's FY-2011 budget. For just $2 million
annually and with 50 years of experience, the BLS International Labor
Comparisons Program produces timely, high-quality international
comparisons of labor force, productivity, hourly compensation and
prices for many industrialized...
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Nov 22 2009
Action Alert from the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance, Bronx, NY: Contact your City Council Member
The Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance (KARA) is a coalition of community groups, congregations and unions seeking high-road, equitable development for the Kingsbridge Armory.* The alliance wants the taxpayer-subsidized...
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The Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance (KARA) is a coalition of community groups, congregations and unions seeking high-road, equitable development for the Kingsbridge Armory.* The alliance wants the taxpayer-subsidized...
Oct 23 2009
"Restaurant workers do some of the hardest and most underappreciated jobs in our nation. It's time they were
guaranteed fair compensation," says Jose Oliva, Policy Coordinator for Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United.
Almost 15% of waiters and waitresses live below the federal poverty level -- which is itself below the actual level needed for even basic...
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Almost 15% of waiters and waitresses live below the federal poverty level -- which is itself below the actual level needed for even basic...
May 1 2009
Does your organization or your partners have tipped workers or
advocates who are able to testify -- from around the state -- and tell
the New York
Restaurant and Hotel Industry Wage Board why they need a raise?
The current minimum wage for tipped workers in the food service industry in New York is $4.60 an hour.
The New York Wage Board is meeting this...
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The current minimum wage for tipped workers in the food service industry in New York is $4.60 an hour.
The New York Wage Board is meeting this...
