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Living Wage Campaign Launch

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Category: New Westminster Living Wage
Published on Wednesday, 07 October 2009 21:03

BC ACORN along with allies from Labour and Community groups will be hosting a campaign launch for the New Westminster Living Wage Campaign.

The campaign aims to win a municipal bylaw in New Westminster that would require that a business receiving tax dollars to pay their employee’s a living wage. Living Wage bylaws are used in over 100 American jurisdictions and aim to end the practice of using tax payer dollars to subsidized poverty wages.

The Campaign launch is happening at New Westminster City Hall (511 Royal Avenue, New Westminster) October the 17th at Noon. We hope we can see you there.

There are currently several Canadian municipalities at different stages of evaluating Living Wage Bylaws for possible implementation. For more info on Living Wage Campaigns check out the Living Wage Resource Centre at: http://www.livingwages.ca.

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With 40,000+ members organized into 20+ neighbourhood chapters in 7 cities across Canada we've been organizing to win a Canada where low and moderate income families have their voices heard and their power felt since 2004.

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