[ [link removed] ]Sign on: Biden's right. No worker should only be paid $2.13 "tipped
minimum wage."

[ [link removed] ]Turn on images to see Saru Jayaraman's tweet: As part of his
#BuildBackBetter jobs plan, @JoeBiden calls for “ending the tipped minimum
wage.” This. Is. Historic. Workers fought years for #OneFairWage & we'll
keep fighting! RT & sign to support this bold progressive plan.

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Hi. My name is Saru Jayaraman. As President of One Fair Wage, I’ve fought
for years to end the sub-minimum $2.13 wage for tipped workers. It was a
poverty wage before and it’s even worse during this pandemic.

Earlier today, as part of his Build Back Better plan to invest hundreds of
billions of dollars creating millions of American jobs, Joe Biden
announced his support for One Fair Wage!

In his new plan announced today, Biden calls for "ending the tipped
minimum wage."

This. Is. Historic. This move gives true meaning to the idea of Build Back
Better by saying that as we rebuild we must re-imagine our business
practices to stand up for workers and families. It represents Biden on the
right side of history -- a stark contrast to Donald Trump.

[ [link removed] ]This important moment was only possible after years of activism from
workers across this country. Can you sign on as a public supporter of One
Fair Wage in Biden’s Build Back Better plan? Click here.

Then, [ [link removed] ]click here to share the news on Twitter!

Workers have organized and pushed the establishment on this issue for
years, and we’re not done pushing.

The tipped minimum wage, still just $2.13 an hour at the federal level, is
a legacy of post-slavery Jim Crow America. Restaurant owners didn’t want
to pay newly freed Black workers, forcing them to live entirely on tips.

At the federal level and in 43 states, workers can be forced to accept a
sub-minimum wage and rely on customers' tips to make up most of their
wages.

The restaurant industry lobby, which later became the National Restaurant
Association (NRA), pushed for federal policy to enshrine their greed,
winning a carveout in the first federal minimum wage law that allowed
tipped workers to be paid $0 an hour as long as tips brought the full
minimum wage. This majority female workforce has thus received an increase
of $2.13 over 80 years.

We also know that this policy disproportionately impacts women and
specifically women of color. Seventy percent of tipped restaurant workers
are women and single mothers, disproportionately women of color, who
largely work in casual restaurants and diners and were living tip-to-mouth
before this crisis.

Coronavirus shutdowns exacerbated the problem. Many service workers are
being denied unemployment insurance because their wages were literally too
low to qualify. And now they’re being forced back to work without safety
protocols and paid sick days for a subminimum wage of under $5 an hour in
most states.

The only path to justice is One Fair Wage -- a full minimum wage plus tips
on top -- for all workers in our country. And the good news is the seven
states that have already moved to One Fair Wage have seen their restaurant
industries grow, worker retention and equity grow and even tipping grow.

But Republicans, and sadly many Democrats, have bowed to the massive
corporate restaurant lobby and stood in the way of One Fair Wage for too
long.

That’s why it’s such a big deal that workers rose up and Joe Biden
acknowledged our work on this issue as he laid out broader pro-worker
policies today that the PCCC calls “Elizabeth Warren-esque” in their
scope.

[ [link removed] ]Will you sign on as a supporter of One Fair Wage in Biden’s Build Back
Better plan -- and show your solidarity with workers who will continue to
rise up and speak out and push the political establishment to embrace the
common sense policies that fight racism and sexism in our economy and
advance basic equity and justice?

At a time when so much seems wrong, and moving in the wrong direction,
this is an encouraging sign. Let’s keep fighting.

In solidarity,

-- Saru Jayaraman, Co-founder and President, One Fair Wage


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