Tell City Council to pass the "Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act"

Tell City Council to pass the "Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act"

When our public dollars
subsidize private development,
we deserve something in return:

good jobs
good wages
good benefits

Join the Living Wage NYC movement
for a press conference on the steps of City Hall
Tuesday May 25th at 11AM
(Please arrive by 10:30 to go through security)

This legislation is big step towards fighting poverty in New York City. It would require that developers and companies who receive major taxpayer-funded subsidies must pay at least a living wage of $10 an hour plus benefits for the jobs they create.

Taxpayers like us gave huge subsidies to projects like Yankee Stadium and The Bronx Gateway Mall, because they are supposed to create decent jobs.

But the reality is that a lot of these jobs are paying at or near the min. wage.

Nobody can make ends meet on a minimum wage job in NYC. We believe a job should keep you out of poverty not keep you in it.

The City Council is going to get a lot of pressure from the powerful real estate interests not to pass this law. We need to mobilize in large numbers to get our representative to act and to do that we need your participation.

Please Join us!
To RSVP contact Ava Farkas: afarkas@rwdsu.org

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Ava Farkas
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
30 E. 29th St.
New York, NY
646-533-5454
212-684-5300

When I moved to Florida from San Francisco in 1992, Floridians assumed San Franciscans and New Yorkers made this boatload of money. They did not realise how people like myself barely eked out a living on $5-6/hourly. When I took a trip to NYC in 2004, I had worked a second job at an answering service which paid only $7 an hour in Winter Park, Florida for awhile. The place was owned by well-off right-wing Christians who loved to talk the talk but not walk the actual talk but I hate the Evangelicals anyway. I worked with a NY'er at the service who complained of the wages but she was not doing much better in New York which is why she came to Florida. I worked with another guy who did better in NYC but his dopey wife wanted Florida so she could have a backyard for the kid. Never mind how her husband worked his ass off to barely pay bills.

I looked at jobs in the paper for NYC and Westchester County for the hell of it. Jobs at answering services were paying $10/hourly but those wages were not enough to survive in the Big Apple. Many jobs in the service industry such as grocery clerks and stockers paid a lousy $6 an hour! Rentals in Harlem were as high as $3 grand a month. What the fuck do 'real' people do there??? Florida women thought they had it so bad that the good-looking ones went into stripping to make more than $7-8/hourly to only lose themselves in such a filthy biz. I knew women in NYC and SF who work for escort agencies as "legit" jobs will not even feed them! Floridians were really hoodwinked at how "rich" they thought the average person was in NYC or SF. I would never go back to the Bay Area again because it is like Manhatten. I could not survive unless I killed myself working two or more jobs just to make The Man rich while I worked myself into an early grave.

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Allison Prince May 20, 2010 at 9:06pm

When I moved to Florida from San Francisco in 1992, Floridians assumed San Franciscans and New Yorkers made this boatload of money. They did not realise how people like myself barely eked out a living on $5-6/hourly. When I took a trip to NYC in 2004, I had worked a second job at an answering service which paid only $7 an hour in Winter Park, Florida for awhile. The place was owned by well-off right-wing Christians who loved to talk the talk but not walk the actual talk but I hate the Evangelicals anyway. I worked with a NY'er at the service who complained of the wages but she was not doing much better in New York which is why she came to Florida. I worked with another guy who did better in NYC but his dopey wife wanted Florida so she could have a backyard for the kid. Never mind how her husband worked his ass off to barely pay bills.

I looked at jobs in the paper for NYC and Westchester County for the hell of it. Jobs at answering services were paying $10/hourly but those wages were not enough to survive in the Big Apple. Many jobs in the service industry such as grocery clerks and stockers paid a lousy $6 an hour! Rentals in Harlem were as high as $3 grand a month. What the fuck do 'real' people do there??? Florida women thought they had it so bad that the good-looking ones went into stripping to make more than $7-8/hourly to only lose themselves in such a filthy biz. I knew women in NYC and SF who work for escort agencies as "legit" jobs will not even feed them! Floridians were really hoodwinked at how "rich" they thought the average person was in NYC or SF. I would never go back to the Bay Area again because it is like Manhatten. I could not survive unless I killed myself working two or more jobs just to make The Man rich while I worked myself into an early grave.

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