Tomorrow the federal minimum wage is increasing to $7.25/hour.  And thanks to Proposition B, passed overwhelming with your help in Missouri in 2006, waiters and waitresses around Missouri will also get a raise.  Their minimum wage is 50% of Missouri’s minimum wage for non-tipped workers.

This last legislative session Jobs with Justice and the waiters and waitresses of the "Save Our Tips" campaign (see picture at right) narrowly defeated state legislation that would have excluded waiters and waitresses from increases in the minimum wage.  Because of that successful campaign nearly 60,000 waiters and waitresses will get a raise tomorrow.

But the Battle is Coming Again 

Rep. Tim Jones (R-Eureka) vowed to re-introduce legislation to exclude tipped employees from future minimum wage increases – maybe even CUT their pay back to the federal minimum of $2.13/hour!  With your help, JwJ and the waiters and waitresses of the "Save Our Tips" campaign will be ready to go BACK to the Capitol and defend their minimum wage. 

Here’s how you can help:

Donate just $20 today to help raise $2000 for a Missouri server lobby day to protecttheir wages when the attacks begin next session (or you can donate through our Facebook page)

Download a "tip card" to make sure your waiters and waitresses know they’ve gotten a raise - and they can defend that raise by going to www.SaveOurTips.org

Visit the Save Our Tips website for more information and to find out how you can continue to help.

Visit the Missouri Department of Labor for more information on tomorrow’s minimum wage increase.

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