Muusja Mailing List: ACTION ALERT: Minimum Wage Call in EXTENDED to Tuesday May 15

[Lauren Culbert (lculbert]

Minimum Wage Call EXTENDED to Tuesday May 15: Please call and circulate 

>From Let Justice Roll: 

Dear Friends: The window for calling has been extended to Tuesday May 15th.
Please feel free to circulate this alert to all your networks. 

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Don't Let America's Workers Wait Any Longer 

Join with Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign: tell Congress finish the
job on minimum wage! 

CALL TOLL-FREE 1-800-459-1887 Wednesday May 9th- Tuesday May 15th 

Background: By February 1st, both the House and Senate passed minimum wage
bills that increased the wage in three steps to $7.25. Yet, four months
later, the bill is stalled and millions of minimum wage workers are still
making $5.15 an hour. Tell Congress to stop playing politics and finish the
job! The House and Senate were able to agree on a minimum wage bill when
including the federal minimum wage increase in the recently vetoed Iraq
supplemental spending bill. A minimum wage raise deserves to move forward on
its own merits. It is time to send a stand-alone minimum wage bill to the
President for signing! 

If the minimum wage is passed into law today, May 2007 a full time minimum
wage worker would only be making $5.85 on July 2007 $6.55 an hour on July
2008 and finally $7.25 an hour on July 2009. 

URGENT ACTION: 

Call your Representative and Senator TODAY: Toll-free at 1-800-459-1887 

Tell Congress to stop playing politics with the lives of millions of minimum
wage workers and their families. A minimum wage raise deserves to move
forward on its own merits. Now is the time to send a STAND ALONE BILL to the
President for signing and finish the job! 

Call these Senate leaders: 
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT, Senate Finance Com. chair) 
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA, Senate Finance Com. ranking member) 

If you have time also call these House and Senate leaders: 
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) 
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) 
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) 
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 

Call your representative toll-free at 1-800-459-1887.* Capitol Hill
Switchboard: (202) 224-3121. 

* The toll-free number is provided courtesy of the American Friends Service
Committee, a Quaker organization whose work for social justice, peace, and
humanitarian service includes campaigns for a moral budget and a fair
minimum wage (www.afsc.org/economic-justice/). AFSC welcomes groups to
circulate and use the toll-free number in support of non-partisan work to
raise the minimum wage and without linking the alert to a website soliciting
donations or actions which may be used to support partisan lobbying or work.


The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign is a growing partnership of more
than ninety faith, community, labor and business organizations working to
raise the minimum wage at the state and federal level. For further
information, please call, Katy Heins, Let Justice Roll, 513-314-0074 or
email to letjusticerollohio [at] yahoo.com. 

Katy Heins 
Let Justice Roll 
215 E. 14th St. 
Cincinnati, OH 45202 
513-314-0074 
letjusticerollohio [at] yahoo.com 
www.letjusticeroll.org
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