Outreach, get involved!

We are meeting at Phiilz Coffee July 28th from 12pm to 4pm. There will be training provided for those that have never done outreach to small businesses before. Yes we will be outreaching to small business about Raise the Wage in San JoseFeel free to invite your friend and family who are also interested in getting involved and helping! This should be a fun way to get to know other community members who share same interests as you! Support the cause and get involved.

Come to the KICK OFF!!

KICK OFF FOR THE FALL CAMPAING

6 P.M. TUESDAY JULY 31

LABOR TEMPLE HALL “A”

2102 ALMADEN ROAD

Why increase the minimum wage in San Jose to $10 an hour?

The prices of gas, food and health care and other necessities have risen over the past four years while the wage of our community’s lowest paid workers haven’t budged. An increase in the minimum wage would help low-wage workers make up for lost round and boost consumer spending. Putting a little more money in the hands of those who greatly need it and will spend much of it locally is good public policy.

It’s the right thing to do.

Bring a friend, bring your family.

Let’s make San Jose a better place to live, work, and play.

Please RSVP to Derecka@atwork.org

www.raisethewagesj.com

Make sure to RSVP

It will be a party! Meet community members, get questions answered, and have a good time!

"DON'T FEED GREED"

DOES DARDEN CEO CLARENCE OTIS FEED GREED?

As CEO of Darden Restaurants- owner of Capital Grille, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, and other chains- Clarence Otis is compensated with a cool $8.5 million, while Darden employees earn as little as $2.13 per hour and do not have paid sick days. Workers at some Darden Restaurants report that they are not fully compensated for their work and have suffered racial discrimination.

Corporate executives take care of their own.

Otis is also a member of the Board of Directors of Verizon Communications, where 45,000 workers are fighting to hold on to their place in the middle class. While workers are told to take cuts in pay and benefits totaling $10,000 per year. Otis and the rest of Verizon’s board gave the company’s CEO a 200% raise, to $23 million.

ASK THE MANAGER OF THIS RESTAURANT TO TELL CLARENCE OTIS: DON’T FEED GREED!

Ways To Get Involved

There are many ways to get involved with the Raise the Wage campaign either directly or indirectly it all contributes to raising awareness, education, and over all support. By simply talking about it with your friends, family, or clients and even posting about this topic through social media networks like FaceBook, Twitter, or your own blog is getting involved and helping. Or you can also take a closer look at the forms below to see other ways of getting involved. Also, you can go to Raisethewagesj.com to get into the email list where you'll be informed about new events, articles, and other great information.

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More reasons to Raise the Wage . . .

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Send a Letter to the Mayor and to the City Council

Send a Letter to the Mayor and to the City Council

Here's one way you can help by taking action, simply click on the link above and send a letter to the Mayor and to the City council members. Its easy and quick too!

http://raisethewagesj.com/

Check out Raise the Wage website to learn more

Gerald L. Bybee Work

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Walmart protest in LA

On June 30th, 2012 thousands of people marched through Chinatown in Los Angeles, California; protesting to urge Wal-Mart to stop invading Los Angeles, respect workers, and to say "No" to Low Wage jobs which diminish local businesses.

Photo By Neil Jacobs

Photo by Maura Villanueva

Some may wonder how this protest against Wal-Mart in LA ties in to the proposition Raise the Wage in San Jose. As one can see, cities all around the United States are fighting back, practicing real democracy, standing up to big corporations like Wal-Mart and asking businesses to pay a higher wage. 

As mentioned in an earlier posting on this blog, we stand for the bigger picture also. It's not simply about raising our wage in San Jose it's about stepping forward in ending a cycle which we have allowed to take control over our lifestyles, views, feelings, and over all our rights.

If the proposition for Raise the Wage in San Jose goes through on November 6th of this year; 44 thousand people the first month of 2013 will be impacted.  If it goes through, 80 thousand people will be impacted in 2013. 

San Jose is taking a stance. If we can do it here, other cities will manage to do so also.

We must prove to other cities that our power is still strong, and that united we can accomplish our goals.