Raise WI

02/09/2018

Good Jobs and a Career In Service and Hospitality – MASH

Our Raise WI campaign in 2014 led directly to the victory for a community benefits agreement covering end-use jobs in the new arena and surrounding development in downtown Milwaukee. Now, Milwaukee Area Service & Hospitality Workers Organization has launched to implement the agreement for $15 and a union jobs with a hiring hall. Workers who want good, living wage jobs with career pathways in the service and hospitality sectors should sign up with MASH at http://mashworkers.org/signup

MASH raises standards for service and hospitality sector employment. We are an organization of service and hospitality workers. We raise wage floors, so our jobs pay a living wage. We uphold workers’ rights, so our jobs provide economic security and respect in the workplace. We provide training, p...

09/01/2016

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Wisconsin working people need a raise and a living wage, and that's why 63% of our state's voters support a $15 minimum wage.
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04/29/2015

Tatiana's testimony for a $15/hr minimum wage

"A $15 minimum wage for me is the difference between living on the brink of poverty and having a little breathing room." Sign the petition to support Melissa Agard Sargent's bill for a $15 minimum wage! http://bit.ly/fairShake

Show your support for a $15 minimum wage by signing the petition! http://bit.ly/fairShake

11/24/2014

Take note...

These retailers are doing the right thing by *not* making their employees work on #Thanksgiving: http://thkpr.gs/3590842

11/21/2014

Mic Check - Poverty Wages No More

Mic Check - Poverty Wages No More

On Tuesday, the school board walked out on our EAs who came to testify about the poverty wages they are paid, but the board walked out on them. Tonight, while EAs…

11/20/2014

Scott Walker’s Cynical New Plan To Drug Test Everyone Who Receives Unemployment Or Food Stamps

#ICYMI - From Think Progress: Gov. Scott Walker (R) will propose a system for drug testing everyone who receives unemployment insurance or food stamps from the state.

Drug testing for public assistance recipients has found lower rates of drug use among people on the dole than among the general population, and costs taxpayers lots of money in the process. Gov. Scott Walker (R) plans to replicate that failure in Wisconsin.

11/20/2014

Kmart To Employee: ‘If You Do Not Come To Work On Thanksgiving, You Will Automatically Be Fired’

Stay classy, Kmart.

Most still don't know their schedules, even with Thanksgiving a week away, but most who do have to work on the holiday.

11/19/2014

Economist Ponders Question: What Is A Living Wage In Wisconsin?

"What exactly is a living wage here in Wisconsin?" asks Wisconsin Public Radio.

What exactly is a living wage here in Wisconsin?

11/19/2014

Parents’ child-care costs have doubled. But teachers still earn poverty wages.

"Nearly half of all child-care workers are so poor that they qualify for public assistance like food stamps, Medicaid and the Earned Income Tax Credit," writes Washington Post.

Parents are paying twice what they did for child care in 1989. Yet low-paid teachers still qualify for public benefits.

11/19/2014

Courageous Bay Area home care leaders arrested with me as we call for $15/hour living wage

Bay Area home care workers took arrests yesterday in the #FightFor15!

Today, I was arrested with courageous home care leaders demanding a $15 an hour wage in high-tech, high-cost San Mateo County - SEIU Local 521 President Luisa Blue and home care providers Tonya York and Myrna Bravo.

11/18/2014

Democrats Should Have a Winning Economic Message

"The question facing America is not how big government should be, but who government should work for: the wealthy or all Americans?" asks Guy Molyneux with Hart Research Associates in The New York Times.

The question facing America is not how big government should be, but who government should work for: the wealthy or all Americans?

11/18/2014

Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

11/17/2014

These Are the Poorest Cities in America

According to TIME magazine, at least one in three households in Milwaukee are living in poverty.

11/14/2014

Wisconsin votes for Walker, but not his policies - Isthmus

From Isthmus: "Although Wisconsin easily returned Gov. Scott Walker to office, voters across the state voted in favor of two ideas Walker has been dead set against -- expanding BadgerCare and raising the minimum wage." #RaiseTheWage.

Although Wisconsin easily returned Gov. Scott Walker to office, voters across the state voted in favor of two ideas Walker has been dead set against -- expanding BadgerCare and raising the minimum wage.

11/14/2014

Voters create paradox as they support higher minimum wage

“To really make ends meet and keep my head above the water and possibly pull my body out of the water, it would take $17.27,” Madison, WI Popeye's worker Motise Reynolds tells The Guardian.

Unions managed to pass the minimum wage in four states, but failed to unseat lawmakers hostile to the labor movement

11/13/2014

Disturbing, but...not shocking.

How does this make you feel?

We've confirmed with a small business in a Simon Malls property that their business will be fined $1,100 PER HOUR if they choose to remain closed on Black Thursday.

What's worse? The large retailers negotiate smaller fines because they have more leverage, so small businesses get screwed, as usual. The fines are so steep that these small shops can't afford to buck the trend even if they love Thanksgiving.

11/13/2014

These Employees Won’t Have To Go To Work On Thanksgiving

Retailers giving their employees Thanksgiving off? The list is growing...

Barnes & Noble and Sur La Table confirmed they will be closed on Thanksgiving Day.

11/13/2014

Walker Won, Now What? - JSOnline

"Every single place where voters had the opportunity to vote on raising wages, they voted in favor," Jennifer Epps-Addison in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The day after election day, many progressives woke up to what feels like a reoccurring nightmare. Despite our best efforts and the feeling in the air during our get out the vote (GOTV) effort, Scott Walker was re-elected.

11/12/2014

Mandates for wage hike and BadgerCare expansion : Ct

"Scott Walker won last Tuesday, but his policies lost," The Capital Times editorial board.

In all 33 referendums across the state, voters by big margins backed a minimum wage hike and taking federal funds to expand BadgerCare.

11/11/2014

#WalmartStrikers know that no one can live on Wisconsin's #WalkerWage.

11/10/2014

Minimum Wage Raise Passes In Four GOP States

#ICYMI

Voters in four red states approved ballot initiatives to raise their state minimum wages on Tuesday, sending another message to Washington that Americans support a higher wage floor. Binding minimum wage referendums were on the ballot in Arkansas,...

11/10/2014

Pretty much says it all...

(h/t The Other 98%)

11/10/2014

Minimum Wages Are Rising in Most States, But It's Still Not Enough to Make the Rent | BillMoyers.com

"The hourly wage that we’d have to hit in order make the rent on a 40-hour work week? $18.92 an hour." -- Theresa Riley and Charina Nadura for Moyers & Company.

One of the few bright spots in Tuesday's election results was the passage of a higher minimum wage in four red states: Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South

11/07/2014

Voters in city of Racine, Milwaukee and Kenosha counties support raising minimum wage -...

"Milwaukee and Kenosha counties, along with the city of Racine, have passed an advisory referendum to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour," reports the Milwaukee Business Journal.

Milwaukee and Kenosha counties, along with the city of Racine, have passed an advisory referendum to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour.

11/06/2014

From Wisconsin State AFL-CIO...

11/06/2014

Even In Deep Red States, The Minimum Wage Won Big Last Night

"Ballot initiatives that increase the minimum wage passed by wide margins in four small states where conservatives typically dominate on Tuesday." -- Think Progress

Workers in these four states can count themselves among the winners from Election Day 2014.

11/05/2014

Yesterday, we won a clear mandate to raise wages in Wisconsin through the decisive victories on each and every Raise Wisconsin minimum wage referendum across the state. Here are the summary results:

Douglas County: 70%
Dane County: 74%
Eau Claire County: 61%
La Crosse County: 61%
Kenosha County: 63%
Milwaukee County: 66%
Portage County: 58%
Rock County: 64%
Wood County: 55%
City of Appleton 59%
City of Menasha 60%
City of Neenah 60%
City of Racine 72%

11/05/2014

Working Families

Election results are in. It's clear: Our fight is not yet over. Join us in Milwaukee on November 15th as we plan to win:

RSVP for Wisconsin Moving Forward! Who: Community activists, leaders of labor & community organizations, and progressive elected officials. When: Saturday, November 15th - 12pm Where: Washington Park Senior Center Milwaukee - 4420 W Vliet Street Fill out the forms below to RSVP: Sorry, we couldn't…

11/04/2014

#GOTV.

11/04/2014

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on why he he's voting to #RaiseTheWage today.

Pledge to vote: http://bit.ly/1pboPci

11/04/2014

Chairwoman of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors Marina Demitrijevic on why she supports #RaiseTheWage referendums in Wisconsin.

Pledge to vote: http://bit.ly/1pboPci

11/04/2014

Milwaukee County Supervisor Khalif Rainey on why he's voting 'YES' to #RaiseTheWage today.

Pledge to vote: http://bit.ly/1pboPci

11/04/2014

NAACP

Here is an important number for you to remember on election day--1-866-OUR-VOTE.

11/04/2014

Madison Alderman David Ahrens on why he's voting to #RaiseTheWage tomorrow.

Pledge to vote: http://bit.ly/1pboPci

11/04/2014

We love Gwen Moore.

Congresswoman Gwen Moore reminds us of the value of our vote! Meme via Worley Dervish