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To: Pennsylvania House and Senate
One Fair Wage in Pennsylvania!
For 17 years, tipped workers in Pennsylvania have been paid only $2.83 an hour by law. In order to survive, we have to rely on unpredictable customer tips, which results in economic instability and vulnerability to harassment on the job. We work hard and should not be treated as second class workers. We deserve a stable base wage, just like other sectors of the workforce, and tips for good service rather than survival. Therefore, I ask you to support one fair wage for all Pennsylvania workers.
Why is this important?
My name is Victoria Bruton and I have worked as a server in Pennsylvania for over 20 years. I have had to rely on tips from customers to survive because Pennsylvania has a two-tiered wage system by which tipped workers are legally paid a base wage of only $2.83 an hour. $2.83 means we experience the poverty at double the rate of the general workforce and are twice as likely to rely on food stamps to feed our families.
I raised 2 daughters while working in the industry. My daughter, Chloe, also works as a server and currently makes the same wage I made in 1991, which is coincidentally the same year she was born. That makes two generations of hard working women in my family who have had to rely on unpredictable and fluctuating tips. And our experience is not an uncommon one.
A two-tiered wage system that forces workers to rely on tips is not okay. Tipped workers, like all other workers in Pennsylvania, deserve a fair base wage. Please join me in asking on our elected officials in Pennsylvania to eliminate the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers.
Thank you,
Victoria Bruton
I raised 2 daughters while working in the industry. My daughter, Chloe, also works as a server and currently makes the same wage I made in 1991, which is coincidentally the same year she was born. That makes two generations of hard working women in my family who have had to rely on unpredictable and fluctuating tips. And our experience is not an uncommon one.
A two-tiered wage system that forces workers to rely on tips is not okay. Tipped workers, like all other workers in Pennsylvania, deserve a fair base wage. Please join me in asking on our elected officials in Pennsylvania to eliminate the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers.
Thank you,
Victoria Bruton
