Don't Link the Minimum Wage to the Iraq War:
Move the Minimum Wage Bills to a House-Senate Conference
The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign calls for the minimum wage to be removed from Iraq Supplemental legislation being considered in the House and potentially in the Senate. Instead, since the House and Senate already passed separate bills to raise the minimum wage, Let Justice Roll calls on Congress to move minimum wage legislation to a House-Senate Conference without further delay, and give our nation's poorest workers their long overdue raise.
It was immoral to hold a minimum wage increase hostage to a destructive rollback of estate taxes for the wealthy in 2006. It is immoral to tie a minimum wage increase to war legislation for political purposes now.
After a decade at $5.15 an hour without a raise, the value of today's minimum wage is lower than it was in 1950. Each day a minimum wage bill is not enacted is another day families spend working harder and falling further behind.
It's time to stop stalling a House-Senate Conference on the minimum wage bills already passed. It's time to Raise the Wage!
URGENT ACTION:
Tell Congress not to link the minimum wage to Iraq Supplemental legislation, and send the minimum wage bills already passed to a House/Senate conference committee instead.
Call one or more of these House and Senate leaders:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at 202-225-0100
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) 202-224-3542
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) at 202-225-4131
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at 202-224-2541
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT, Senate Finance Com. chair) at 202-224-2651
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA, Senate Finance Com. ranking member) at 202-224-3744
Call your representative toll-free at 1-800-459-1887.* Capitol Hill Switchboard: (202) 224-3121.
* The toll-free number is provided courtesy of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization whose work for social justice, peace, and humanitarian service includes campaigns for a moral budget and a fair minimum wage (www.afsc.org/economic-justice/). AFSC welcomes groups to circulate and use the toll-free number in support of non-partisan work to raise the minimum wage and without linking the alert to a website soliciting donations or actions which may be used to support partisan lobbying or work.
The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign is a growing partnership of more than ninety faith, community, labor and business organizations working to raise the minimum wage at the state and federal level.
For further information, please call, Katy Heins, Let Justice Roll, 513-314-0074 or email to letjusticerollohio@yahoo.com.
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