United Methodist Women's Living Wage for All
Campaign seeks to engage members as allies in passing state and local
legislation that lays the base for a living wage for everyone. The living wage
is what it takes for a family to meet basic needs of housing, food,
transportation, utilities, etc., in their locale. United Methodist Women joins
faith and labor coalitions working to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
But that's still below the living wage, and that alone will not
guarantee a living wage for all families. Wage theft and lack of sufficient
work hours pose additional obstacles, for example. Domestic workers, tipped
workers, farm workers—then majority African American and now mostly immigrant
workers—were excluded from New Deal labor legislation and continue to be
excluded from some labor rights today. This is a racial justice issue!
Read more at this link.
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