The Kansas School for Effective Learning (KANSEL) has generously offered to let us use their space for our RTW meetings this week. They are located at
2212 E. Central, Wichita 67214
Thursday, November 1:
6:30 p.m.
Raise the Wage general meeting
Our Steering Committee will meet one hour earlier at the same location.
Additionally, Kansas Action Network will hold its next board & general meeting beginning at 1:00pm, also at KANSEL. All Raise the Wage participants are welcome to attend.
See below today’s (Oct. 19) story in the Wichita Eagle:
“Minimum wage may turn into city issue”
Below that, see related story, “Kansans make more than Oklahoma, Nebraska peers” (Oct. 18)
The many comments posted to the online version take issue with the claim stated in its title.
Minimum wage may turn into city issue
BY DAN VOORHIS
The Wichita Eagle
A coalition of labor and community groups has gathered more than 1,300 signatures in an attempt to create a Wichita minimum wage.They will present the petition to the Wichita City Council at some point in the future in hopes it will pass an ordinance mandating a wage to match the federal minimum wage. Continue reading ‘RTW in the news again! (and related stories)’
Not so shocking, I suppose. See article below from today’s (Oct. 15) Wichita Eagle. It is interesting to note that the jobs associated with the highest rates of depression are also the jobs that pay sub-federal minimum wage in Kansas (below $5.85 an hour): childcare workers, companions for the elderly and food service workers. http://www.kansas.com/509/story/200921.html
Report ranks jobs by rates of depression
By KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - People who tend to the elderly, change diapers and serve up food and drinks have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers.
Overall, 7 percent of full-time workers battled depression in the past year, according to a government report available Saturday.
Women were more likely than men to have had a major bout of depression, and younger workers had higher rates of depression than their older colleagues.
Almost 11 percent of personal care workers - which includes child care and helping the elderly and severely disabled with their daily needs - reported depression lasting two weeks or longer. Continue reading ‘Lowest paying jobs have highest rates of depression’
Lindsay comments on Zach’s story:
I appreciate this very much! I have been waiting table for the last four years. Restaurants take advantage of servers. In my first job, it was the servers responsibility to do tasks completely unrelated to serving the guests. We had to take the food temperatures, and do all the cleaning at the end of the night, while everyone who had a decent hourly wage got to go home early. There would be times when the store would close at 9 or 10 and the servers would be there until 1 or 2 in the morning working for $2.13 an hour finishing up cleaning.
Our next meeting will be held this Tuesday, October 9th at 6:30 pm in the Patio Room of the Wichita Central Public Library at 223 S. Main. Please note the new meeting location!
Please try to make it to this next meeting as we will be putting the finishing touches on our organizational campaign strategy, goals and timeline.
I hope to see you there! Call Jake at 316.941.4061 if you have any questions.
