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Over 100 People Rally @ Courthouse for Minimum Wage as Living Wage Resolution

Over 100 people attended a Rally on May Day 2012 at the Tompkins County Courthouse to support a Tompkins County Resolution that would increase the statewide Minimum Wage to a Living Wage. While the Workers’ Center Resolution that would increase to a Living Wage was defeated by a 6-9 vote, a Resolution to increase the Wage to $10.39/hour was approved by a 10-5 vote ($10.39 would be our Minimum Wage if wages had kept pace with inflation since 1972).

May Day Rally and Events

There will be lots to do on May 1st in Ithaca! Join us at 4:45 in front of the Tompkins County Courthouse for a Rally for the Living Wage! The Tompkins County legislature will be debating a resolution that would support the ideal that a minimum wage must be a Living Wage. We will go en mass into the public comment period at 5:15. Show your support for Living Wage.
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Join us April 17th, Tax Day, for Tax the 1% Day of Protest

Tax the 1%!
Disgusted by a tax system rigged for the 1%?
Join the 99% and take a stand on Tax Day.

Tuesday April 17th @ 4pm
Tioga Street side of the Ithaca Commons

A protest to demand that billionaires and corporations pay their fair share. Taxing the 1% is the quickest way to rebuild the economy so it works for us all.
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Over 150 People Join in Tompkins County Rally Demanding An Increase in the Minimum Wage to a Living Wage

Over 150 people joined together in Ithaca, NY demanding that the NYS Minimum Wage increase to a Living Wage. Breaking the 40 Hour Fast that was part of the 17th Annual NYS Labor-Religion Coalition Annual Event, this year’s theme of the Fast was ‘Bread and Roses’ in celebration of the 100 years since the Lawrence, MA Bread and Roses strike. ‘We want bread, but we want roses too’, was the theme of the Strike.

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TCWC Potluck Event: 40-Hour Fast Kickoff for Worker Justice, the 100 Year Anniversary of the Bread and Roses Strike, and Increasing the NYS Minimum Wage to a Living Wage

Join us, the Tompkins County Workers’ Center and the Labor-Religion Coalition of the Finger Lakes, for the 17th Annual 40-Hour Fast, as sponsored by the New York State Labor-Religion Coalition, to occur this year between Saturday, March 10th, and Monday, March 12th.
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Three Tompkins County Businesses Newly Living Wage-Certified

The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is pleased to announce that we now have 75 Certified Living Wage Employers, having just added the following:

· Mama Goose and Mimi’s Attic both located at 430 W. State/MLK Street, Ithaca;
· Aigen Financial Group, LLC, 202 E. State/MLK Street, Ithaca;
· Red Feet Wine Market and Spirit Provisions, 435 Franklin Street, Ithaca.

The three new Living Wage-Certified Employers employ a total of approximately 30 workers; this brings the total of workers, countywide, who are working for Living Wage Employers up to approximately 1,650.
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Responding to NYS Assembly Speaker Silver’s Call for a Minimum Wage of $8.50/hour, the Tompkins County Workers’ Center Calls for a Minimum Wage That Is a Living Wage!

The Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) agrees with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and other lawmakers in Albany that the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour cannot cover the basic needs of workers in New York. However, the minimum wage proposed by Speaker Silver, $8.50 an hour, is not enough of a change: it is time to embrace a Living Wage as the Minimum Wage.

The TCWC, originally called the Living Wage Coalition, proposes that the Minimum Wage be raised to $12.78/hour. $12.78 an hour is the Living Wage that is calculated biannually by Alternatives Federal Credit Union in Ithaca as the amount that a single person working 40 hours per week, without health insurance, needs to make in order to provide their basic human needs without accessing governmental services.
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Raise New York’s Minimum Wage

How much money does it take to live in Tompkins County, with its high rents, heating bills and gas prices? Could you live securely on NYS’s minimum wage, $7.25 an hour? A movement is growing across the state to raise that minimum wage; The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is part of that movement. Will you join us?

Raise N.Y.’s minimum wage
By Dan Cantor AND Camille Rivera, Commentary

Imagine what it would be like to live on $300 per week.
That’s just about what nearly 700,000 New York state workers earn, according to the federal Census Bureau. That’s 8 percent of the statewide workforce.

More than a million minimum wage and near-minimum wage workers got raises on Jan. 1 that will help struggling families put food on the table, keep the heat on through the winter, and make ends meet.
None of those families live in New York, however.
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WE NEED YOUR HELP! ‘Wage Theft’ Days of Action

(ITHACA) The Tompkins County Workers’ Center and the Labor-Religion Coalition of the Finger Lakes has answered the call from Interfaith Worker Justice to participate in its National Wage Theft Days of Action, helping to create a more just workplace, locally, and throughout the State of New York. We invite our members and supporters of the ‘Community Union’ to participate in this new campaign

How does our National Wage Theft Days of Action campaign work? The idea is for you to connect with workers in establishments where you shop, where you eat, where you buy anything, where you visit loved ones. We have a simple brochure for you to give out: The 8 1/2 by 11 sheet, folded in four ways, educates workers in the following areas:
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What Does the ‘Occupy’ Movement Mean for All of Us?

From Wednesday, 10/20 edition of the Ithaca Journal.
After hearing about the Occupy Wall Street protests in Manhattan, we were intrigued about what the protests mean in terms of the issues that are of driving concern to us: issues of economic and social inequality that we witness on a daily basis in Tompkins County and Central New York. Issues resulting from the ways in which power is doled out to those who can game the system simply because of their own economic privilege. As a result, we decided to do an informal fact-finding mission on behalf of the Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) on October 1st, the day of the march to the Brooklyn Bridge. Upon our arrival, we were struck by the absolute diversity and commitment of everyone who was at that Saturday protest.
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