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Saru Jayaraman: At least in the restaurant industry, people are saying "Enough is enough!" This is 150 yrs in the making. Restaurant wages were set in 1865 when owners wanted to pay almost no wages, making employees live on tips.
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage #RaiseTheWageAct
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage #RaiseTheWageAct
Saru Jayaraman: Why bother? Before the pandemic, workers just made it by with their tips & making min. wage of $2.83/hr. During pandemics, state govts told workers they made TOO LITTLE to get unemployment benefits.
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage #RaiseTheWageAct #OneFairWage
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage #RaiseTheWageAct #OneFairWage
Rick: We didn't pay them, but we called them "essential workers."
Saru Jayaraman: CDC said restaurants were the most dangerous places to work, even above hospitals. Health risks way up, wages/tips way down. Customer hostility through the roof.
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage
Saru Jayaraman: CDC said restaurants were the most dangerous places to work, even above hospitals. Health risks way up, wages/tips way down. Customer hostility through the roof.
@SaruJayaraman @onefairwage
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Raising the minimum wage will take millions of American women--80% of minimum wage workers--out of #poverty.
1 in 8 women lives in poverty due to low wages.
#RaiseTheWageAct would change so many lives.
Call your senators and tell them to vote against gendered poverty.
Raising the minimum wage will take millions of American women--80% of minimum wage workers--out of #poverty.
1 in 8 women lives in poverty due to low wages.
#RaiseTheWageAct would change so many lives.
Call your senators and tell them to vote against gendered poverty.
If you want to know who is making minimum wage in America and why, my investigation here explains it in detail. #RaiseTheWageAct won't just lift women out of poverty, it will also lift their kids, as many single mothers live on min wage jobs.
damemagazine.com/2018/04/12/wom…
damemagazine.com/2018/04/12/wom…
The right claims no one was meant to live on #MinimumWage jobs. Yet that is happening all over America and it is creating a distinctly gendered poverty.
#RaiseTheWageAct will change millions of women's lives.
damemagazine.com/2019/06/17/we-…
#RaiseTheWageAct will change millions of women's lives.
damemagazine.com/2019/06/17/we-…
