Don’t Let America’s Workers Wait Any Longer; Tell Congress finish the job on minimum wage!

Don’t Let America’s Workers Wait Any Longer

Join with Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign: Tell Congress finish the job on minimum wage!

CALL TOLL-FREE 1-800-459-1887
Wednesday May 9th-Friday May 11th

Background: By February 1st, both the House and Senate passed minimum wage bills that increased the wage in three steps to $7.25. Yet, four months later, the bill is stalled and millions of minimum wage workers are still making $5.15 an hour. Tell Congress to stop playing politics and finish the job! The House and Senate were able to agree on a minimum wage bill when including the federal minimum wage increase in the recently vetoed Iraq supplemental spending bill. A minimum wage raise deserves to move forward on its own merits. It is time to send a stand-alone minimum wage bill to the President for signing!

If the minimum wage is passed into law today, Wednesday, May 9, 2007 a full time minimum wage worker would only be making $5.85 on July 9, 2007, $6.55 an hour on July 9, 2008 and finally $7.25 an hour on July 9, 2009.

URGENT ACTION:
Call your Representative and Senator TODAY:
Toll-free at 1-800-459-1887

Tell Congress to stop playing politics with the lives of millions of minimum wage workers and their families. A minimum wage raise deserves to move forward on its own merits. Now is the time to send a STAND ALONE BILL to the President for signing and finish the job!

Call these Senate leaders:
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT, Senate Finance Com. chair)
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA, Senate Finance Com. ranking member)

If you have time also call these House and Senate leaders:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD)
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

Call your representative toll-free at 1-800-459-1887.*
Capitol Hill Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

* The toll-free number is provided courtesy of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization whose work for social justice, peace, and humanitarian service includes campaigns for a moral budget and a fair minimum wage (www.afsc.org/economic-justice/). AFSC welcomes groups to circulate and use the toll-free number in support of non-partisan work to raise the minimum wage and without linking the alert to a website soliciting donations or actions which may be used to support partisan lobbying or work.

The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign is a growing partnership of more than ninety faith, community, labor and business organizations working to raise the minimum wage at the state and federal level.


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