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July 25, 2024

Tidbits – July 25 – Reader Comments: Passing the Torch; Calling All Students Going Off to College-Get Your Absentee Ballots; Bernice Johnson Reagon; Ending Taxes on Tips?; March To End Climate Destruction-July 27; Cartoons; More

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Reader Comments: Passing the Torch; Calling All Students Going Off to College -- Get Your Absentee Ballots Now; Bernice Johnson Reagon; Ending Taxes On Tips; Record Breaking Corporate Profits - Not Inflation; March To End Climate Destruction-July 27

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January 11, 2024

Serving Justice: The Fight To Eliminate the Tipped Minimum Wage

Mariama Sidime The Progressive

Subminimum wages reinforce the notion that food service is not serious labor and that payment for that work should be conditional.

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April 29, 2021

Tipped Workers and the Fight for $15

Mat Hanson and Nikki Cole The Forge

One Fair Wage is fighting for tipped restaurant workers; it is fighting for Uber and Lyft drivers, car wash workers, nail salon techs, youth, the incarcerated, workers with disabilities.

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April 3, 2021

The Subminimum Tipped Wage for Restaurant Workers Guarantees On-the-Job Harassment

Alex N. Press Jacobin

A recent survey of restaurant workers confirms what insiders know: that the industry has the highest rate of sexual harassment, and a reliance on tips exacerbates the problem. Eliminating the tipped wage would go a long way to fixing the problem.

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