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Yes, they did it again. The Senate defeated a clean minimum wage increase that is nearly 10 years overdue.
A majority of senators—54—voted to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 without handing out more business tax breaks. But the mostly Republican opponents of a clean minimum wage increase filibustered the measure, and it takes 60 votes to end debate on a filibustered bill. Now the Senate will take up a minimum wage bill that includes tax breaks and other giveaways President Bush wants—and it’s expected to pass.
So, once again, millions of minimum wage workers have to wait for a raise while the House (which passed a clean minimum wage increase) and Senate work out the differences between their versions of the legislation.
Low-wage workers have been at the back of the line long enough. Tell your U.S. representative and senators: Pass a clean minimum wage increase with no more business handouts. Click here to send your message.
Tuesday night, in his State of the Union Address, President Bush claimed the economy “is on the move” and growing. Not for minimum wage workers, that’s for sure. The real buying power of their paychecks is at the lowest point in more than 50 years. Today, a full-time minimum wage worker makes just $206 a week, $10,712 a year—far below the poverty line for even a small family.
Businesses have gotten $300 billion in tax breaks since the last time minimum wage workers got a raise. It’s time to demand a clean minimum wage increase.
Tell your U.S. representative and senators: Pass a clean minimum wage increase with no more business handouts. Click here to send your message:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/CleanWageRaise
Thank you for fighting for working families.
In solidarity,
Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO
P.S. Help spread the word. Please forward this e-mail to at least 10 other working family activists you know and urge them to send messages to Congress, too.
If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department.
A majority of senators—54—voted to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 without handing out more business tax breaks. But the mostly Republican opponents of a clean minimum wage increase filibustered the measure, and it takes 60 votes to end debate on a filibustered bill. Now the Senate will take up a minimum wage bill that includes tax breaks and other giveaways President Bush wants—and it’s expected to pass.
So, once again, millions of minimum wage workers have to wait for a raise while the House (which passed a clean minimum wage increase) and Senate work out the differences between their versions of the legislation.
Low-wage workers have been at the back of the line long enough. Tell your U.S. representative and senators: Pass a clean minimum wage increase with no more business handouts. Click here to send your message.
Tuesday night, in his State of the Union Address, President Bush claimed the economy “is on the move” and growing. Not for minimum wage workers, that’s for sure. The real buying power of their paychecks is at the lowest point in more than 50 years. Today, a full-time minimum wage worker makes just $206 a week, $10,712 a year—far below the poverty line for even a small family.
Businesses have gotten $300 billion in tax breaks since the last time minimum wage workers got a raise. It’s time to demand a clean minimum wage increase.
Tell your U.S. representative and senators: Pass a clean minimum wage increase with no more business handouts. Click here to send your message:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/CleanWageRaise
Thank you for fighting for working families.
In solidarity,
Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO
P.S. Help spread the word. Please forward this e-mail to at least 10 other working family activists you know and urge them to send messages to Congress, too.
If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department.
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