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For anyone needing more evidence the @SaveOurTips anti-minimum wage propaganda is built on a house of lies…
The lobby group behind the campaign to kill #Initiative77 is the same group that claimed a smoking ban would be the death of DC restaurants over a decade ago.
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The lobby group behind the campaign to kill #Initiative77 is the same group that claimed a smoking ban would be the death of DC restaurants over a decade ago.
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@saveourtips 1/ One of the main lobby groups trying to keep DC’s tipped workers from getting a raise under #Initiative77 is the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (@RAMWdc).
They’re the ones behind the astroturf @SaveOurTips campaign.
They’re the ones behind the astroturf @SaveOurTips campaign.
@saveourtips @RAMWdc 2/ @RAMWdc’s @SaveOurTips misinformation campaign is full wild, unsubstantiated claims, as I’ve noted before:
But their effort to kill #Initiative77 is hardly the first time they’ve lied to DC voters to try to sink a popular ballot measure.
But their effort to kill #Initiative77 is hardly the first time they’ve lied to DC voters to try to sink a popular ballot measure.
Two important pieces on #Initiative77 and why you should be #YesOn77:
-- From @elizaischultz + @mboteach: popville.com/2018/06/the-ca…
-- From @rwest817 + @kfgrobbins: talkpoverty.org/2018/06/04/yes…
-- From @elizaischultz + @mboteach: popville.com/2018/06/the-ca…
-- From @rwest817 + @kfgrobbins: talkpoverty.org/2018/06/04/yes…
And this point that @elizaischultz + @mboteach is so key if you are wondering why you may be seeing some of the "no on 77" arguments you are seeing -- it's about power in the workplace, who has it and who doesn't popville.com/2018/06/the-ca… 
The same power imbalances that explain why a tipped minimum wage is bad for workers -- given risk of harassment, wage theft, and so on -- are also at play when you see opponents afraid of speaking up for #Initiative77 b/c of possible retaliation
thinkprogress.org/should-dc-rest…
thinkprogress.org/should-dc-rest…
The restaurant lobby is so hell-bent on paying tipped workers a poverty-level sub-minimum wage, they’re funding a front group pretending to be organized restaurant workers—all to block D.C.’s #Initiative77.
Meet @SaveOurTips.
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Meet @SaveOurTips.
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@saveourtips 1. In DC, tipped workers—aka anyone who makes even $30 in tips per month—are subject to a sub-minimum wage of $3.33 an hour. #Initiative77, which is on the ballot in DC through June 19th, would ensure they’re paid the same minimum wage as all other workers.
@saveourtips 2. In the months since #Initiative77 started to gain steam, signs screaming “Save Our Tips!” appeared in seemingly every bar and restaurant across DC. Diners drown in @SaveOurTips flyers making wild claims about how the ballot measure will supposedly hurt workers.
