Living Wage Town Hall, Sunday 6/22 @ 230

(Ithaca) This Sunday, June 22nd, a coalition of organizations working for an increase to the local minimum wage both for the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County will be holding a Living  Wage Town Hall at Southside Community Center, 305 S. Plain Street, Ithaca, beginning at 2:30 p.m. and ending by 4:00 p.m. If you can make it, please consider signing in HERE.

The Town Hall will be focusing on the legislative campaigns at both City and County levels for a higher local minimum wage than the NYS minimum of $15.50.

Among the speakers will be:

  • Workers who need a Living Wage;
  • A worker who makes a Living Wage;
  • Living Wage Employer
  • Travis Brooks, Tompkins County Legislature (tentative);
  • Veronica Pillar, Tompkins County Legislature;
  • Rob Cantelmo, Mayor of the City of Ithaca;
  • Kayla Matos, Ithaca Common Council;
  • Tiffany Kumar, Ithaca Common Council;
  • Ian Greer, Senior Researcher for the Cornell ILR School’s Co-Lab;
  • Pete Meyers, Tompkins County Workers’ Center.

Coalition sponsors include:  Southside Community Center; Tompkins County Workers’ Center; Ithaca DSA; UAW Local 2300; Tompkins County Immigrant Rights Coalition; Tompkins County Working Families Party; Mutual Aid Tompkins; Ithaca Tenants Union; Feeding New York State; Rochester Regional Joint Board, Workers United; Landmarks Building LLC (a certified Living Wage Employer); Cornell American Association of University Professionals (AAUP)

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