[Peace] Fwd: Low Wage Workers - a Panel Discussion

[Rachel Storm]

*Please circulate widely!*

*Announcing: Critical lecture next Saturday evening on issues facing
America's working class. Featuring  Ricky Baldwin, SEIU Local 73; Belden
Fields,  Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois,
Pat Simpson, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, Loyola University
Chicago! *



*Social Justice Forum, Channing Murray, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, April 12*

*How Can We Help Low Wage Workers*

For generations, Americans shared a tacit understanding that if you worked
hard, a livable income and basic securities would be yours. That promise
has been broken. Today, more than 30 million men and women in this country
work in jobs that pay poverty wages and provide few if any benefits.

A large body of research amassed over the past decade clearly demonstrates
that the structural changes to the U.S. economy over the past 20 years
resulting from globalization, sharp declines in union density, industry
deregulation and the computerization of the workforce have led to harsh
working conditions, reduced benefits, and fewer opportunities for
advancement for workers in low-wage jobs. In addition welfare reforms begun
under the Clinton Administration have forced larger numbers of unskilled
workers into the low-wage labor market.

In this panel, several aspects of the low-wage issue will be addressed: 1)
myths about low-wage workers; 2) problems with measuring income adequacy
and the history of a local living wage campaign; 3) current social justice
efforts on behalf of low-wage workers, including "Fight for $15". The
panelists are
Ricky Baldwin, SEIU Local 73; Belden Fields,  Emeritus Professor of
Political Science, University of Illinois, Pat Simpson, Emeritus Professor
of Industrial Relations, Loyola University Chicago.



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