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One Fair Wage For Massachusetts Tipped Workers
The sub-minimum wage for tipped workers is still just $6.75 an hour in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.1 While seven states including...
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Mar 26, 20241 min read
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ALWAYS ESSENTIAL, STILL WAITING FOR CHANGE - New York
A legacy of slavery and a source of race and gender inequity, poverty, and harassment, the subminimum wage for tipped workers has been a...
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Mar 18, 20241 min read
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ALWAYS ESSENTIAL, STILL WAITING FOR CHANGE
A legacy of slavery and a source of race and gender inequity, poverty, and harassment, the subminimum wage for tipped workers has been a...
Comms
Mar 15, 20241 min read
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We Need Relief AND Raises
The restaurant industry has been one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the United States economy for decades. Restaurant...
Comms
Feb 8, 20221 min read
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Closed Due to Low Wages
The Ongoing Exodus of Workers from the New York Restaurant Industry and the Looming Impact on Consumers The New York Restaurant Industry...
Comms
Dec 31, 20211 min read
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No Rights, Low Wages, No Service
How Increased Violations of Workers’ Rights in 2021, Coupled with High Harassment, and Low Wages and Tips, Have Pushed Workers to Leave...
Comms
Sep 30, 20211 min read
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Raising Wages to Reopen
Restaurants Nationwide Raising Wages to Save Their Businesses After Covid-19 The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive upheaval in the US...
Comms
Aug 31, 20211 min read
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It's a Wage Shortage, Not a Worker Shortage
Why Restaurant Workers, Particularly Mothers, Are Leaving the Industry, and What Would Make Them Stay The COVID-19 outbreak has had...
Comms
May 1, 20211 min read
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The Tipping Point
How The Subminimum Wage Keeps Incomes Low and Harassment High As one of the largest employers of women, one of the largest employers of...
Comms
Mar 1, 20211 min read
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Full Deal for Full Recovery
Congressmembers, Pass the American Rescue Plan in Its Entirety! We represent tens of millions of workers, independent businesses, and...
Comms
Jan 26, 20211 min read
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"Take Your Mask Off so I Know How Much to Tip You"
Service Workers’ Experience of Health & Harassment During COVID-19 COVID-19’s devastation of the service sector has been well documented,...
Comms
Dec 6, 20201 min read
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The Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers as Public Health Crisis
How the Subminimum Wage Disincentives COVID-19 Safety Enforcement in Restaurants Thanks to strong state and local leadership, localities...
Comms
Oct 1, 20201 min read
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Persistent Legacy of Slavery
Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers as a Racial Equity Measure In 2020, both the COVID-19 pandemic and the uprisings for racial...
Comms
Aug 1, 20201 min read
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Locked Out by Low Wages
Service Workers’ Challenges with Accessing Unemployment Insurance During COVID-19 Before the pandemic, 13 million U.S. restaurant workers...
Comms
May 6, 20201 min read
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Roadmap To Reimagine Restaurants
A New Path Forward After COVID-19 The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has changed everything about the restaurant industry. Two out...
Comms
May 1, 20201 min read
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This Moment is Highlighting Why We’ve Needed One Fair Wage All Along
Forty-three states in the United States allow restaurants and other employers to pay tipped workers a subminimum wage, forcing them to...
Comms
Apr 20, 20201 min read
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