Notices by Working Families Party (workingfamilies@mastodon.social)

Discuss pay and benefits with your coworkers. Then organize for more.

Big corporations wouldn’t have their record profits without the labor of workers.

Record profits with no increase in pay are stolen wages.

just the facts

Corporate interests insisted that CA fast food workers' $20/hr minimum wage would have all kinds of disastrous effects. None of it happened.

Instead:
- Workers’ pay went up 18%
- Prices went up just $0.15 for a typical $4 hamburger
- Workers didn’t lose their jobs

Is this not obvious?

In 1968, one federal minimum wage was enough to keep a family of three above the poverty line.

Now, one federal minimum wage falls over $5,000 BELOW the 2023 poverty line for a family of two.

Make the minimum wage living wage again.

In 1965, CEOs were paid 21 times as much as the typical worker.
In 2023, they were paid 290 times as much.

They’re hoarding the rewards of our hard work at the top and leaving less and less for ordinary people. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Dockworkers were just offered a 62% raise over 6 years. But they're not the only ones to win big with a union.

- Amtrak workers: 34% compounded raise over 7 years
- American Airlines flight attendants: immediate 20% raise
- Disneyland workers: 31% raise over 3 years

instead of billionaires we should have thriving communities.

Working full-time should automatically mean having enough to pay for
- a place to live
- food
- healthcare
- enjoying life
- saving for the future

Unless that pizza party also comes with a raise, you probably need a union.

Your ability to access healthcare shouldn’t depend on your ability to find and keep a job.

In August, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Amazon is a joint employer to its drivers and has a legal duty to recognize and bargain with the drivers who unionized under the Teamsters.

Totally unrelated, Amazon just announced a pay bump for its drivers.

If they’re willing to give you a raise so you don’t unionize, imagine what you could win if you DO.

Reminder: They never stop organizing.

But neither will we.
Through this election and beyond.

The U.S. is the only high-income country where mass shootings have happened every single year for the past 20 years. Source: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/26/world/us-gun-culture-world-comparison-intl-cmd/index.html

Say it louder for the people in the back.
https://www.vox.com/education/368756/teachers-school-unions-labor-education-students-strikes

Instead of billionaires, we should have:

- affordable housing for everyone
- universal healthcare
- living wages
- clean and reliable public transit
- education that doesn't put you into debt
- universal childcare

Imagine if wealth was used to benefit everyone instead of just hoarded.

What if (hear us out) big corporations didn't pay their CEOs over 200x what they pay workers....and instead they paid their workers more.....so everyone could benefit from record profits, instead of just the executives.

Just spitballing.

Everyone deserves a living wage.

That means janitors, and fast food workers, and teachers, and delivery drivers, and nurses, and rideshare drivers. It means everyone.