TODAY: We Delivered 90,000 Signatures for Increasing the Minimum Wage!

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From: "Joann Lo, Food Chain Workers Alliance" <noreply@list.signon.org>
Date: Feb 14, 2013 5:15 AM
Subject: TODAY: We Delivered 90,000 Signatures for Increasing the Minimum Wage!
To: <aquarianm@gmail.com>
Cc:

Hello, Daniel!  Thank you for getting us over 90,000 signatures on our petition "Tell Congress: Don't Let Food Workers Go Hungry" in support of raising the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour and the tipped minimum wage of $2.13 per hour!  We delivered the petition to the Education & Workforce Committee of the House of Representatives today!

It's been an exciting 24 hours!  President Obama last night, in his State of the Union address, highlighted the need to raise the federal minimum wage.  And then, after we delivered our petitions and rallied with ally organizations such as the National Employment Law Project, the Praxis Project, CATA - the Farmworkers Support Committee, the NW Arkansas Workers' Justice Center, and others this morning, we received great news from Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Rep. George Miller (D-CA). These two Congress members were the authors of last year's Fair Minimum Wage Act. Today, they issued a statement in response to the President's SOTU and announced that they "have been working together again this year on our own new legislative proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10. Our proposal would ensure that minimum wage workers, often in difficult and dangerous jobs, will not fall into poverty." $10.10 is higher than what they proposed last year, and they will also propose to raise the minimum wage for workers who receive tips. 

If you'd like to see photos from our day in Washington, D.C., on 2/13/2013, go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foodchainworkers/ & https://www.facebook.com/ROCUnited.

We'll likely start a new petition once Sen. Harkin and Rep. Miller introduce their new bill so stay tuned, and we hope we can count on your continued support!

Thank you,
The Welcome Table
Food Chain Workers Alliance
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United

 

 

 

 

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