Stop Leaving Us Out: 73 Years of New York State Minimum Wage Increases Excluding Women – Especially Women of Color....
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THE KEY TO SAVING THE CONNECTICUT RESTAURANT INDUSTRY POST-COVID 19
THE KEY TO SAVING THE CONNECTICUT RESTAURANT INDUSTRY POST-COVID 19
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $6.38 an hour in the state of Connecticut. A direct legacy of slavery, the subminimum wage affects a workforce of nearly 70,000 tipped workers that is 70 percent women and 36 percent people of color. Ending this low-wage carve out positively impacts an overall restaurant industry of over 110,000 workers in Connecticut.

Intentional Inequality
Intentional Inequality
September 21, 2022 is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. This date represents the approximate time a Black woman must work into the new year to make the same amount that a white man made the previous year. The restaurant industry is no exception.

No Pride in Subminimum Wages
No Pride in Subminimum Wages

Raising Wages to Reopen
Raising Wages to Reopen - New York State Restaurants Raising Wages to Save Their Businesses After COVID-19

Are You Being Served?
Are You Being Served?
How Applebee’s NYC Establishments Are Responding to the Great Resignation With Racial Inequity

UNLIVABLE
UNLIVABLE
Increased Sexual Harassment and Wage Theft Continue to Drive Women, Women of Color, and Single Mothers Out of the Service Sector

The Great Black Restaurant Worker Exodus
The Great Black Restaurant Worker Exodus