"Waging Change" Follows Tipped Workers' Fight To End The Subminimum Wage
Abby Ginzberg On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Waging Change, a new documentary that shines a light on the challenges tipped workers face who are struggling to make ends meet. For years, they have been organizing to end the tipped worker minimum wage, which is just $2.13 an hour in 43 states. President Biden has promised to raise the federal minimum wage, which hasn't been raised in 11 years. Congressional Democrats have reintroduced the Raise the Wage Act, which would gradually increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by the year 2025. It would also phase out the $2.13 per hour s...