Executive Council Statement
Attack on Working Americans
… Bal Harbour, FL Anti-worker interests are using their control of Congress and numerous state houses to launch an assault on working American families. Their broad legislative agenda would subvert workplace democracy and … retirees through sharp cuts in Medicare and Medicaid. While proposing to cut off welfare recipients and require them to work, they damn government job creation and child care initiatives. They rail against crime and the deterioration of … earnings, calls for a minimum wage of $5.69today. Clearly a minimum wage of $5.15 two years from now is astep in the right direction, but a modest one. The high point inpurchasing power of the minimum wage, in 1968, translates to aminimum …