The One Fair Wage campaign is fighting to end unjust sub-minimum wages in America.
Under federal law, many service workers can be paid a sub-minimum wage. Tips are supposed to make up the difference, but they often don’t. And because of a policy that’s literally a holdover from the slavery era, our nations’ largest workforce of women of color work hard all day for pocket change. Futhermore, the growing workforce of app-based workers who are tipped live equally precarious lives as independent contractors. Which means when a crisis hits, and tips disappear, all of these workers have nothing to fall back on.
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We’re raising emergency cash assistance funds to support tipped workers and other service workers who are being fired, seeing their shifts cut and their customers dry up, and/or are staying home for health and the safety of others. We need your support.
One Fair Wage president Saru Jayaraman talks about this history of tipping in America — and the unprecedented crisis tipped workers and other service workers are now facing:
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