[Antiracism] [Workers' Rights] Living Wages v. The Financial Crisis 2/19

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

Northampton Living Wage Coalition presents

Living Wages v. The Financial Crisis: 

Thursday February 19 

7pm, Conference Room, second floor, room 234/236, Potpourri Plaza, 243 King
St, Northampton, opposite Stop & Shop.

 

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Ian Seda,

a staff economist from the Center for Popular Economics*, will speak on
stagnant wages and debt leading to the current economic meltdown, and how a
living wage strategy fits into fixing it. 

Pete Myers, 

co-founder of the Tompkins County Living Wage Campaign, now the Tompkins
County Workers' Center, will describe the successful Living Wage campaign in
Ithaca NY. 

Northampton Living Wage Coalition members 

will describe the campaign  for a City Council resolution updating the 1998
Northampton Living Wage Resolution for employees with health insurance to
$9.88, and $11.87 for employees without health insurance; collecting
petition signatures supporting the resolution; asking local business owners
to commit to paying a living wage; publicly recognizing them if they do.

Living Wage.bmp

 

For more information, contact: Jon Weissman, 413-827-0301, wmjwj at wmjwj.org, 

or Kathryn Collins, kathryncollins52 at yahoo.com. 

 

*Center for <http://www.populareconomics.org/>  Popular Economics teaches
economic literacy to activists for progressive social change. CPE creates
and communicates economic theories that challenge systems of oppression
based on class, race, gender and nation. CPE works to demystify economics by
providing workshops and educational materials to activists throughout the US
and around the world.

 

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