Endorsements

 

We, the undersigned, join with over 250,000 members of the Kansas Action Network in supporting an increase in the Kansas minimum wage of $2.65 an hour. We believe this figure is disgracefully low and should be raised to match the national level. According to the Department of Labor, there are now at least 17,000 Kansas workers who are covered by the absurdly low Kansas minimum wage rather than by the federal minimum.


We believe a job should keep you out of poverty, not in poverty. Because the Kansas legislature has refused to raise the minimum wage since 1988, it is time for us to act locally. We call upon our city to use its home rule authority to establish a city minimum wage matching the federal level. Ultimately, in 2009, the federal minimum wage will rise to $7.25 an hour. Currently, the figure is $6.55.


We say:  Keep up with the rest of the country. Raise the wage to the federal minimum wage level.


Raising the wage will help workers and their families pay for food, housing, health care, childcare, and transportation.

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Topeka Organizations.

  1. •Soroptimist Club, Topeka

  2. •Teamsters Local 49-G / Graphic Communications Conference

  3. •Topeka Center for Peace and Justice

  4. •Topeka Independent Living Resource Center

  5. •Topeka NAACP

    KAN coalition members

  6. •Flint Hills Living Wage Coalition

  7. •GI Forum

  8. •Grow Kansas

  9. •International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers District 70 and Locals 2799, 733, 774, 834

  10. •Kansas AFL-CIO

  11. •Kansas Ecumenical Ministries

  12. •Kansas Farmers Union

  13. •Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice

  14. •Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice

  15. •Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas

  16. •Plumbers and Pipe fitters Local 441

  17. •Salina Central Labor Union

  18. •Sisters of St. Joseph of Concordia

  19. •Southeast Kansas Independent Living Resource Center

  20. •Statewide Independent Living Council of Kansas

  21. •Topeka Center for Peace and Justice

  22. •Topeka Independent Living Resource Center

  23. •Topeka Federation of Labor

  24. •Topeka LULAC

  25. •Topeka NAACP

  26. •Tri-County Labor Council of Eastern Kansas

  27. •United Methodist Church East Kansas Conference

  28. •United Steelworkers of America Local 3092

  29. •Wichita Hutchinson Labor Federation


Other Raise the Wage endorsers

  1. •Business and Professional Women – Kansas

  2. •Kansas AFL-CIO

  3. •Kansas Association of Community Action Programs (KACAP)

  4. •Kansas Association of Public Employees (KAPE)

  5. •League of Women Voters - Kansas

  6. •Let Justice Roll

  7. •National Organization for Women – Kansas

  8. •Sierra Club, Kansas

  9. •Unitarian Universalist Association

  10. •Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

We call upon people and organizations who support the principles of the Raise the Wage campaign to join our coalition. Here are the list of RTW endorsements.

Wichita Organizations.

  1. •Adorers of the Blood of Christ Convent

  2. •APWU #735

  3. •Bricklayers Union Local 15

  4. •Business and Professional Women of Kansas – Wichita Chapter

  5. •Childcare Providers Together/AFSCME

  6. •Church Women United - Wichita

  7. •Communication Workers Local 6402

  8. •Heartland Quaker Meeting

  9. •Hope Street Youth Development

  10. •IAM & AW District 70

  11. •IAM & AW Local 639

  12. •IAM & AW Local 733

  13. •IAM & AW Local 774

  14. •IAM & AW Local 839

  15. •IAM & AW Local 2799

  16. •IAM & AW LL 708

  17. •IBEW Local 271

  18. •IBEW Local 1523

  19. •International Association of Fire Fighters Local 135

  20. •Kansas-Oklahoma Conference of the United Church of Christ

  21. •Labor Council on Latin American Advancement

  22. •NAACP - Wichita

  23. •National Association of Letter Carriers

  24. •National Organization for Women – Wichita Chapter

  25. •Peace & Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas

  26. •Plumbers and Pipefitters UA 441

  27. •ProKanDo

  28. •Sedgwick County Democratic Party

  29. •Sedgwick County Federation of Women’s Democratic Clubs

  30. •SEIU Local 513

  31. •Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 29

  32. •Sisters of St. Joseph

  33. •Sisters of St. Joseph - Dear Neighbor Ministries

  34. •Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace Local 2001

  35. •St. Anne Catholic Church

  36. •St. Elizabeth Ann Seton - Peace and

  37. •Social Justice Committee

  38. •Teamsters Union Local 795

  39. •United Food and Commercial Workers Local 2

  40. •United Teachers of Wichita Local 725

  41. •Wichita-Hutchinson Labor Federation of Central Kansas, AFL-CIO

  42. •Wichita State University – Campus Progress

  43. •Wichita State University – College Democratic Socialists

  44. •Wichita State University – College Democrats

  45. •Wichita State University – Political Science Club

Kansas City Organizations.

  1. •Capital Electric

  2. •International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Local 83

  3. •IBEW Local 124

  4. •Interfaith Worker Justice

  5. •Jobs with Justice, Greater Kansas City

  6. •Teamsters Local 838

  7. •Tri-County Labor Council, AFL-CIO

  8. •United Auto Workers Local 31

  9. •Kansas City Women’s Chamber of Commerce