This is not a labor shortage, this is a WAGE shortage. We are not going to have enough workers to reopen the restaurants unless we change our wage policies.
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💲Be sure to tip your barista but also tell employers that "tips have to be on top, not instead of, a full minimum wage.” - #OneFairWage President in conversation with .
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“You walk into a retail outfit, they turn Apple Pay around, you’re asked to tip at a flower shop or when you’re getting bottled water at a coffee shop. And suddenly that worker can be classified as a tipped worker and be paid $2 an hour"
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✅ Washington DC’s tipped workers no longer have to rely on customer bias to make a living with the passing of #Initiative82.
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We heard from President about the disparate pay outcomes as the result of New York's subminimum wage for the restaurant industry.
#onefairwage #blackwomensequalpayday
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🚨 Our NEW report released on #BlackWomensEqualPayDay - Intentional Inequality.
📌 How the subminimum wage denies Black women fair pay for their labor.
🔗 Read the full report here: onefairwage.site/wp-content/upl
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Today on National Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, we are with and more talking about the disparity in pay for black women especially in the restaurant industry and the need for #OneFairWage
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. met a young woman w/cerebral palsy who got a job at her local Goodwill. She worked 40 hrs/week for ~$1.50/hour. Then Goodwill declined to extend her contract.
“People with disabilities should be treated as equal to other people," she said.
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On this episode of , OFW president discusses the history of tipping practices. #tippedworkertuesday #onefairwage
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. is offering a stellar slate on “Just Good Food,” Tuesdays 7p ET from Sep-Dec. Online links available on each date. Featuring: , , . , , Leah Penniman, Denzel Mitchell, .
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NEW RELEASE—
JFI examines the political pathways forward for #guaranteedincome policy post pandemic & #BuildBackBetter—
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Great piece about the necessity of reform in the restaurant industry by , president of — one of our #BoldSolutionsNetwork members & a finalist in 's $90M #RacialEquity2030 challenge. 👏
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“Two and a half years after the Covid pandemic began, we’re in a long-overdue moment of upheaval and evolution for the restaurant industry,” writes @SaruJayaraman. “And for once, restaurant owners are actually listening to the workers.” nyti.ms/3JBU5wu
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Our own writes in The New York Times what The Bear gets right about the difficult stressful job of being a sub-minimum wage tipped restaurant worker today.
#OneFairWageNow
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So much more to the practice of tipping than I ever knew. guests described the history of tipping, the push for higher wages, disciminatory behavior tied to tipping & recent "service & hospitality fees" added to bills.
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Coming up Monday at 9am we’ll talk about the practice of tipping at restaurants: its history & how it’s changing with guest . How do you decide how much to tip? What trends are you seeing? Call 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828
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🚨NEW 🚨 federal legislation to eliminate the subminimum wage and ensure tipped workers receive their full tips was introduced by !
The Tipped Worker Protection Act.
Check out how this will increase pay equity and worker protections in the service sector. ⤵️
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Big victory for workers in Michigan, and big credit to + + the many others who helped to make it happen! Now let's go NATIONAL! #raisethewage
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BREAKING: One Fair Wage is now LAW in Michigan!
Today, the courts in Michigan vindicated the rights of these millions of workers and voters, to demand that workers in Michigan be paid a full, livable wage with tips on top.
clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/ 
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New York has the highest record of workers leaving the restaurant sector: 1 in 5 compared to 1 in 10 nationally.
Sally Greenberg outlines how the #staffingcrisis and #subminimumwage converge into a less than ideal dining scene. #RaisetheWage
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We are confronting this tragic attack on health and bodily autonomy with resolve and a plan to provide every restaurant worker with the support to overcome regional barriers to their health care access.
Donate here:
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Chicago folks! Join us on 7/25 for an afternoon of fun & organizing in community with us!
📍Humboldt Park 1-4pm
🗓 RSVP: airtable.com/shrUlMK6QSqyS1
#OneFairWage #RaiseTheWage
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Our report, ‘Unlivable’, outlines how sexual harassment and wage theft continue to drive women, women of Color, and single mothers out of the service sector.
Read the full report —> bit.ly/OFWUnlivable
#MaskualHarassment #RaisetheWage
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“Workers are saying, ‘We're done. We are done.’ And that is very hopeful. It has led to a lot of rethinking—in our industry, at least.” — of . bit.ly/3ALcmF8 #wagejustice #fairwage
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"When we think about who's most impacted by the lack of access to abortion, it's women of color and low-income women in the restaurant industry who are struggling with $2 and $3 wages,"
- OFW president
#RoeVWade #RaisetheWage
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July is #disabilityawarenessmonth. People with disabilities are paid as little as $1.17 an hour - illegal since the federal #subminimumwage is an absymal $2.13.
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#disability #discrimination
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🚨BREAKING🚨17 members of congress ask President Biden to adopt the ‘High Road Kitchens’ Program, a partnership w/ #OneFairWage, which supports restaurant owners that are raising wages in response to #thegreatresignation.
Led by US Reps &
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We’re launching the 25✖️250 campaign, to raise wages and end subminimum wages in 25 states - 1/2 the country - by the United States’ 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Watch this space.
#July4th #IndependenceDay #OFW25x250
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Nearly 60% of Americans (150 million adults) are living paycheck to paycheck. Now more than ever wages need to be raised. #RaisetheWage #OneFairWage
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From “Record levels of demand for workers, which has pushed businesses to compete for scarce talent by raising pay, especially in certain industries such as leisure and hospitality (restaurants, hotels) and retail.” #OneFairWage #thegreatresignation
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“When you cannot operate at more than 40% capacity because you don’t have enough staff, you have to change your practices.”
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Learn more or get involved: rfkhro.org/3N2NhYK
#RFKCompass #workplace
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The webinar now up to watch 🙏
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In a spirited conversation, field leaders @SaruJayaraman (@onefairwage), @cmehta3 (@communitychange), and @SmileyJWJ (@jwjnational), discuss the roots of wage exploitation and how workers are organizing to achieve wage justice today: bit.ly/3N2ahaE #WageJustice #fairwage
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📈 Our research team wrote a blog on “Analysis of How Sexual Harassment and Wage Theft are Driving Women, Women of Color, and Single Mothers out of the Restaurant Industry” which analyzed our recent report #Unlivable. Check it out
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Lobby day for #onefairwage bill #S1213 Wednesday 6/15 at 12:30PM on the steps of the Massachusetts State House
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How is wage justice related to struggles for racial and gender justice? Find out with and panelists ’s , ’s , and ’s on 6/9: bit.ly/3amOz38
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I will be speaking on ending subminimum pay in America, specifically for service workers.
Join us, register here: chicagowomentakeaction.org/events/cwta-ge
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Join us for CWTA's June 6 meeting with guest speaker Saru Jayaraman the author One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America.
More info here --ow.ly/HJge50JcoIf
#onefairwage #endsubminimumwage
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📕 Our latest report: ‘Are You Being Served’ outlines how the staffing crisis is exacerbated by racial pay divides. At white employees are paid a higher wage than employees of color in #NewYork.
Read the report ➡️ bit.ly/OFWServed
#OneFairWage
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Wages are too damn low!
If the minimum wage had increased at the rate of productivity since 1960, it would be over $25 today.
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BIG WIN: NY Senate passed the 21st Century Antitrust Act!
This is a big step toward shifting the way our economy works for workers and small businesses.
Tell & NYS Assembly to pass this bill immediately: bit.ly/nyfe22
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Each of us, whatever our job or zip code, should be able to live, work and make decisions about our future with dignity and economic security. This must always include decisions about pregnancy and parenting.
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Stuck Nation Radio: The Racist Roots of America’s Sub-Minimum Wage; Plus, a Guide to Global Corp. Tax Evasion #CorporateGreed laborpress.org/stuck-nation-r
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