Waging Change is available for screenings at colleges and community organizations!
Waging Change wins Best of Show in the Accolade Global Film Competition
The Federal minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13 an hour.
IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE!
Waging Change, a new documentary featuring Saru Jayaraman, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, who have been working tirelessly for One Fair Wage, weaves together the female driven movements that reveal an American workers’ struggle hidden in plain sight-- the effort to end the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 for restaurant servers and bartenders and the #MeToo movement's efforts to end sexual harassment. The film shines a spotlight on the challenges faced by restaurant workers trying to feed themselves and their families by intertwining stories of individuals, such as Nataki Rhodes of Chicago, Andrea Velasquez of Detroit and Wardell Harvey of New Orleans with the growing movement to end the tipped minimum wage, spearheaded by One Fair Wage and the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC-United). Directed by Peabody award winner, Abby Ginzberg, Waging Change helps all consumers see the important role they have to play in ending this two-tiered wage system.
The coronavirus epidemic has revealed the extreme challenges confronted by tipped restaurant workers and other tipped workers such as car service drivers and delivery workers.
We hope you will consider helping those who have lost their jobs and their livelihoods by donating to the One Fair Wage Emergency Fund, which is providing cash assistance to tipped workers in need, many of whom will not qualify for unemployment benefits. To date, over 60,000 workers have applied to the Fund for help.
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“WAGING CHANGE is an eye-opening film for all those, faculty, students, citizens committed to social justice. It is a moral disgrace and economic exploitation of the lowest sort that we require tipped workers to be paid $2.13 an hour. It is time for all concerned with justice for working Americans to become educated about this issue, and Waging Change does just that!”
“WAGING CHANGE is a compelling look at the unfair employment practices suffered by millions of workers in America’s tipped economy. It should be available in every college library. An essential film for understanding the way our economy really works, and who wins and loses in the process.”
“To be a healthy nation, every person who can work needs to earn enough money to support themselves and be treated with dignity-let’s just start there.”
“I feel great to be part of this campaign…everything you do to work for other people in the world, to make their lives a little fuller, a little easier, a little more secure, it’s meaningful.”