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Formerly the Mid-South Interfaith Network for Economic Justice     

Faithfully seeking justice with workers                                                         

  City Contract Workers Win a Living Wage!

  After more than 3 years of holding prayer vigils, rallies, and town hall
  meetings calling for a living wage ordinance, as well as mobilizing
  thousands of Memphians to call, email, and write their City Council
  members, the Council passed a living wage ordinance. The
  ordinance requires companies that have service contracts
  (such as janitorial, security, or landscaping) with the City of Memphis to
  pay workers on these contracts a living wage.  
 

  The Council passed the ordinance on November 21st, 2006 by a vote of 11 to 1. This groundbreaking ordinance is the first of its kind in Tennessee, and Memphis now joins more than 140 local governments nationwide that have living wage ordinances.

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