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The Living Wage
We Are Wisconsin ConveningSeptember 22 & 23, 2012
Building the Movement for Economic Justice, Community by Community Across Wisconsin
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A baseline on “living wage”
• What brought you to this session?
• What questions do you want answered?
• What does the term “living wage” mean to you?
• What do you think “living wage” means to the average Wisconsinite?
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Analysis: How did we get here?
• Fight everywhere, with urgency
• Make “good jobs” real
• Issue that stands in for whole
• Environment change
• Role of government
• Community standard
• A struggle to build around
• Connect issues to elections
• Governance
• Movements need wins
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Living Wage, DefinedLiving wage: [noun]1. A level of compensation for work on which a person can provide for the welfare of a family and live in dignity. 2. A government policy, usually at a local level, attaching standards to public money. 3. A campaign run by unions, community organizations and progressive leaders, fighting for economic justice in a local area. 4. The movement for good jobs & economic fairness and against inequality, built upon local campaigns.
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Living Wage, DefinedLiving wage: [noun]1. A level of compensation for work on which a person can provide for the welfare of a family and live in dignity. 2. A government policy, usually at a local level, attaching standards to public money. 3. A campaign run by unions, community organizations and progressive leaders, fighting for economic justice in a local area. 4. The movement for good jobs & economic fairness and against inequality, built upon local campaigns.
Wait...where have
I heard that
before?
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Living Wage, DefinedLiving wage: [noun]1. A level of compensation for work on which a person can provide for the welfare of a family and live in dignity. 2. A government policy, usually at a local level, attaching standards to public money. 3. A campaign run by unions, community organizations and progressive leaders, fighting for economic justice in a local area. 4. The movement for good jobs & economic fairness and against inequality, built upon local campaigns.
What is a “good job”
Hint: A “living wage” is more than just wages...
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Living Wage Standards
•Minimum wages set above poverty level
•Quality, affordable health insurance
•Paid sick days
•Index to inflation
•Right to dignity, respect, voice on the job
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Living Wage, DefinedLiving wage: [noun]1. A level of compensation for work on which a person can provide for the welfare of a family and live in dignity. 2. A government policy, usually at a local level, attaching standards to public money. 3. A campaign run by unions, community organizations and progressive leaders, fighting for economic justice in a local area. 4. The movement for good jobs & economic fairness and against inequality, built upon local campaigns.
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Public Money•Contracts
•TIF
•Grants
•Loans
Shouldn’t public money support good jobs, not subsidize poverty, and drag down standards for all
workers?
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Units of Government
•Municipal (e.g. city, village, town)
•County
•School Board
i.e. “Where can we move this policy?”
Attach the standards through policy at all levels
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More Standards
•“Responsible contractor” provision
•“Bad apple” ban
•Active disclosure
•Community enforcement
i.e. “We want this to work!”
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Note: Not A Magical Economic Justice Elixir
•Chapter 104
•Act 32
•7th Circuit
•“Supremacy”
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Hot Tip
To impress all of the members of the opposite sex at an upcoming party, just say things like:
“In Wisconsin, based upon statute and appellate court precedent, local units of government may act as market participants, but not as market regulators.”
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Living Wage, DefinedLiving wage: [noun]1. A level of compensation for work on which a person can provide for the welfare of a family and live in dignity. 2. A government policy, usually at a local level, attaching standards to public money. 3. A campaign run by unions, community organizations and progressive leaders, fighting for economic justice in a local area. 4. The movement for good jobs & economic fairness and against inequality, built upon local campaigns.
Gotta have a Plan To Win
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What will it take to win?
•Majority of elected officials in each unit of government voting for policy
•Inside-outside approach
•Organized public demand built from a strong base
•Forcing a public discussion
•Flashpoints that create public pressure on elected officials to decide & act
•Champions, and the right people in office
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Inside-outside approach
•Living wage will not be won on idea alone, will not happen because of relationships, or beat the opposition without a fight
•Coordination between “inside” of elected officials in government, lobbying, & relationships and “outside” of grassroots campaign
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Ultimately, it takes a plan that includes...
•A strategy that gets to winning•Tactics that build out the strategy•Commitment of players at the table•Resources, organizations, leaders
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Campaign Assessment
•Need
•Opportunity
•Challenge
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Living Wage, DefinedLiving wage: [noun]1. A level of compensation for work on which a person can provide for the welfare of a family and live in dignity. 2. A government policy, usually at a local level, attaching standards to public money. 3. A campaign run by unions, community organizations and progressive leaders, fighting for economic justice in a local area. 4. The movement for good jobs & economic fairness and against inequality, built upon local campaigns.
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What’s Going On Now
•Milwaukee
•Racine
•Your neck of the woods?
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A story of the future...
...How the living wage movement galvanized the masses, built powerful organizations, won real victories for working folks, and changed Wisconsin politics.
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Building the movement where you
live...