Ottawa Metro: Businesses asked to support living wage
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- Category: Ottawa Living Wage Campaign
- Published on Thursday, 13 January 2011 14:10
Jan 13th - Ottawa's Metro newspaper feature an article last month on the growing efforts to engage businesses as supporters of that cityies living wage campaign.
Fair wages will be the topic of discussion at Cycle Logic Friday morning as members of Ottawa ACORN gather support for the Living Wage campaign.
Local businessman Ian Fraser will host the event in order to ask other businesses to follow him by making a living wage part of their policies.
“The current minimum wage is not a living wage,” he said. Nadia Willard, a supporter of Living Wage, said Statistics Canada has proven that employees need to make at least $13.50 per hour in order to meet their basic needs.
“If we want to deal with poverty in a significant way, we must end up paying people who do an honest day’s living,” she said.
The original article can be found at: http://reader.metronews.ca/digital_launch.aspx?id=a1b4f281-d139-41f6-8a48-a4164f065b12&pnum=4
