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.
Here’s how you can help:
Donate now.
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.
Eat on the high-road.
Because your tips make up most of server and delivery staff wages, you should aways tip 20%. But even more, you should support sustainable restaurants that are focused on good wages and a healthy industry. Download our app to find high-road restaurants near you.
Fight for ONE FAIR WAGE.
Seven states have already moved to One Fair Wage, plus tips on top, for all workers. And they’ve seen their restaurant industries grow while worker poverty and sexual harassment has declined. We need 43 states to join them. Lend your voice and help fight.
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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