Raise the Wage PA is a statewide coalition of community, labor, faith-based, and other organizations fighting for an increase in the PA minimum wage. Participating organizations include:
15Now Philly
Action United
AFSCME DC 13
AFSCME DC 47
AFSCME DC 47 Retirees
American Association of University Women
ANEW Community Institute
Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties
Business for a Fair Minimum Wage
Central PA Area Labor Federation
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Communications Workers of America
Community Action Committee of Lehigh Valley
Community Justice Project
Consumer Advocate of Philadelphia
Earth Rights Institute
Equality Fest
Fight for 15
Fight for Philly
Jewish Social Policy Action Network
Jobs with Justice
Keystone Progress
Keystone Research Center
Lebanon County Democratic Party
Lutheran Advocacy Ministry of PA
Make the Road PA
Making Work Pay PA
National Women’s Law Center
NE PA Area Labor Federation
NW PA Area Labor Federation
One Pittsburgh
Organizing for Action, Pennsylvania – Lehigh Valley Chapter
PA AFL-CIO
PA Alliance for Retired Americans
PA Budget and Policy Center
PA Council of Churches
PA NAACP
PA Society for Clinical Social Work
PA State Voices
Pathways PA
Pennsylvania Immigration & Citizenship Coalition
Pennsylvania Working Families
Philadelphia AFL-CIO
Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America
Philadelphia Jewish Labor Committee
Philadelphia Security Officers Union
Philadelphia Unemployment Project
Pittsburgh United
POWER
POWER Metro
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
SE PA Area Labor Federation
SEIU Healthcare PA
SEIU Local 32BJ
SEIU Local 668
SEIU PA State Council
The Historic Grace United Methodist Church
The Interdenominational Ministers Conference of Greater Harrisburg
The Lehigh Conference of Churches
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Wyoming Valley
Unitarian Universalists PLAN
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776
Welcome Church
Women’s Law Center
Women’s Law Project
Working America
York NAACP
York Progressives
Principles of Raise the Wage PA
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We support an increase in the state and federal minimum wages to at least $15 per hour.
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We support a cost of living adjustment in any legislation so that the minimum wage keeps pace with inflation.
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We oppose a separate minimum wage for tipped workers.
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We oppose the preemption of the right of localities to set their own minimum wages in Pennsylvania.
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We support a significant increase in fines on employers who engage in wage theft against their employees and strengthening of enforcement efforts.
