'Waging Change' For Fair Pay For Tipped Workers

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In most of the country, tipped workers, such as restaurant servers and bartenders, earn a minimum wage of less than $5 an hour -- in 17 states they earn just $2.13. Advocates with One Fair Wage, a campaign to raise the federal minimum wage for tipped workers, say the over-reliance on tips to meet the most basic needs makes workers more vulnerable to sexual harassment and abuse. We’ll talk with One Fair Wage’s president and with the director of the documentary, “Waging Change”, which tells the stories of tip workers, the movement to raise their pay and the industry forces that fight higher wages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.7	You know, like restaurant workers and bartenders.
1:18.6	You know, in most states, people who work for gratuities earn less than the state minimum wage
1:24.2	plus tips.
1:25.7	Their minimum wage can be as low as $2.13.
1:29.6	And that compares with the national minimum of 7.25 an hour.
1:34.4	And a new film titled Waging Change highlights problems with the current system and the
1:38.6	campaign to change it.
1:40.8	Joining me, our Bay Area filmmaker, Abby Ginsburg.
1:43.2	She produced and directed waging change.
1:45.4	Abby, welcome.
1:46.1	Thank you for having me.
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