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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 ::
Don't ignore the working poor, author urges By Terri Finch Hamilton, The Grand Rapids Press
One place to start is raising the minimum wage to $8.70 and indexing it to inflation, she says.
'The federal minimum wage of $5.15 an hour hasn't even kept up with inflation,' Shulman says. 'If it had, it would be a little more than $7 an hour. If you make minimum wage, that's $10,000 a year, and nobody can live on that.'
Workers need the right to organize without fear of intimidation, harassment or being fired, Shulman says. Recent Labor Department statistics show that, on average, unionized service jobs pay nearly twice as much as nonunion service jobs, she says.------------------------------------------- posted 6:55 AM :: reference link ::
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