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Formerly the Mid-South Interfaith Network for Economic Justice     

Faithfully seeking justice with workers                                                         

  Council Passes Living Wage for All City Workers!

  The Living Wage Campaign celebrated a victory on December 5, 2006, when the
  Council addressed the widespread problem of temporary City workers being paid
  poverty wages. Many of these workers have been employed by the City for many
  months or even years. The Council voted to raise all temporary workers above age 18
  to at least $10 per hour by July 1st, 2007.

  Previously, in February of 2006 the City Council passed a resolution,
  introduced by Chairwoman TaJuan Stout Mitchell, to pay full-time City workers a living wage
  of $10 per hour, plus health benefits, beginning in July of 2006.

  Read about the living wage victory for city contractors and workers at companies receiving tax freezes.