Hello ST Friends, Not sure if this petition from our friends at the Workers Center has been posted to this list yet... Please read through and sign if you believe this will be important leverage point for the county to spread its conviction on the importance of paying a living wage.
Gay I am writing you now, either because you already signed a petition (text below), or I think that you *would* be interested. If you would consider either forwarding the electronic version of the petition, with a personal note to your friends/relatives, etc., which can be found at http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/200/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6448 *or* spreading hard copies (let me know if you'd like us to send you some hard copies, or send a Word Document of the petition), please do so, and let know! We're aiming to get thousands and thousands of signatures *from Tompkins County residents* by mid-summer, so any help you can give on this would be greatly appreciated! In solidarity Pete The text of the petition is as follows: Petition in Support of a Living Wage for *All* Tompkins County Contracted Workers and Workers Employed by Businesses that Receive Economic or Community Development Assistance! *The Tompkins County Workers’ Center *is working to ensure that all businesses and organizations that contract with Tompkins County, or receive economic or community development assistance, are required to pay all of their workers at least a Living Wage, as defined and updated by Alternatives Federal Credit Union every two years. By signing below, I attest to my strongly held belief that ALL workers employed by businesses sub-contracting with Tompkins County must receive at least a Living Wage. I affirm my willingness to pay a small increase in County taxes to subsidize local nonprofit agencies that truly cannot afford to pay all of their workers at least a Living Wage, if necessary. I also attest to my strongly held belief that all recipients of County economic development assistance and/or community development assistance should be *required* to pay their workers at least a Living Wage. If you take care of this moment, you will take care of all time. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Gay Nicholson, Ph.D. President Sustainable Tompkins 109 S. Albany St. Ithaca, NY 14850 www.sustainabletompkins.org 607-533-7312 (home office) 607-220-8991 (cell) 607-216-1552 (ST office) 607-216-1553 (ST fax) [email protected] For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at [email protected].
