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Featured Member
Carolyn Brown
Carolyn is a Member of our Steering Committee for many years and is an important link for us to the union movement as she sits on the Executive Committee of the local United Auto Workers 2300. She brings an important perspective to our work for economic justice!
Affiliations
Service Learning in Social Justice
This program provides service learning opportunities about social justice for hundreds of university, college, and secondary schools students in Tompkins County. We
provide internships and volunteer experiences, and deliver programs about social justice both in classrooms and in the community.
Take the pledge: During the next year, I'LL BE THERE at least
five times for someone else's fight as well as my own. If enough of us
are there, we'll all start winning.
We all deserve to have good jobs with good wages so we can live decently.
We all deserve rights and fair treatment as workers.
Healthcare is a right -- everybody should have affordable and comprehensive access to it.
We all deserve livable and affordable housing
Justice for Hotel Workers Campaign
The hotel industry in Ithaca employs over 600 workers. Each hotel sets its own pay scale but
the general wage is in the $7.15-8.00 range. This is well below a living wage in Tompkins County.
We are seeking to publicly recognize and reward employers in the private, public and non-profit sectors that do pay a
living wage, and to provide market-based rewards and incentives for them and others that would like to do so.
The Workers' Center is committed to the principle that everyone has the right to comprehensive health care (in fact,
this right is guaranteed to us by U.S signature, in 1948, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Too many
people are dying, put into bankruptcy, and are suffering due to a health care system that puts profits first.
A Living Wage is the amount of income and resources (such as health insurance) needed for an individual or family to meet its basic needs without
public or private assistance. According to a study done for 2009 by Alternatives
Federal Credit Union, a single individual without
children needs
$23,103.87 for the year ($11.11/hour for a 40-hour week). Without health insurance, a Living Wage would be $12.11/hour (or $25,188.80 for the full
year). This is based on what it would cost for person to purchase Healthy New York.
The hotel industry in Ithaca employs over 600 workers. Each hotel sets its own pay scale but
the general wage is in the $7.15-8.00 range. This is well below a living wage in Tompkins County.
We are seeking to publicly recognize and reward employers in the private, public and non-profit sectors that do pay a
living wage, and to provide market-based rewards and incentives for them and others that would like to do so.
The Workers' Center is committed to the principle that everyone has the right to comprehensive health care (in fact,
this right is guaranteed to us by U.S signature, in 1948, to the