Don’t Let America’s Workers Wait Any Longer
Join with Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign: Tell Congress finish the job on minimum wage!
CALL TOLL-FREE 1-800-459-1887
Wednesday May 9 - Tuesday May 15
Background: By February 1st, both the House and Senate passed minimum wage bills that increased the wage in three steps to $7.25. Yet, four months later, the bill is stalled and millions of minimum wage workers are still making $5.15 an hour. Tell Congress to stop playing politics and finish the job! The House and Senate were able to agree on a minimum wage bill when including the federal minimum wage increase in the recently vetoed Iraq supplemental spending bill. A minimum wage raise deserves to move forward on its own merits. It is time to send a stand-alone minimum wage bill to the President for signing!
If a minimum wage raise is signed into law in May, a full time minimum wage worker would only be making $5.85 an hour with the first step in the raise in July, $6.55 in July 2008 and finally $7.25 an hour in July 2009.
URGENT ACTION:
Call your Representative and Senator TODAY:
Toll-free at 1-800-459-1887
Tell Congress to stop playing politics with the lives of millions of minimum wage workers and their families. A minimum wage raise deserves to move forward on its own merits. Now is the time to send a STAND ALONE BILL to the President for signing and finish the job!
Call these Senate leaders:
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT, Senate Finance Com. chair)
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA, Senate Finance Com. ranking member)
If you have time also call these House and Senate leaders:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD)
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
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.
Katy Heins
Let Justice Roll
215 E. 14th St.
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513-314-0074
letjusticerollohio@yahoo.com
www.letjusticeroll.org
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