A report entitled "Street of
Shame" put out by the RWDSU and Make the Road by Walking, exposes the low pay,
poor benefits and other abuses by stores along Bushwick's Knickerbocker Avenue
shopping strip that are being targeted by the May 1 demonstration. The Santorum
amendment would eliminate this protection for workers in firms with
annual revenues of $1,000,000 or less ."
Since 1997, inflation has equaled nearly 20 percent.

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Put Forward to Block More Generous Kennedy Proposal, Santorum Policy Also
Includes Backdoor Cuts in Overtime Pay and for Tipped Employees

Many Workers Could Lose Income Even with Minimum Wage Increase of
$1.

Eliminate Overtime Pay for Many Interstate Commerce Workers.

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"Community pressure and legal action have already prompted employers on
the Knickerbocker Avenue shopping strip to pay tens of thousands of dollars in
back wages to immigrant workers," says Make the Road Executive Director Andrew
Friedman.
His proposal indicates that he sees employers who compete based on very low
wages as a higher priority than Americans who work hard but remain in
poverty.
Productivity (output per hour) has increased by about 25 percent since
1997."

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HARRISBURG, Pa.

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"The amendment is not simply a way to block the more generous Kennedy
proposal while appearing to favor a minimum wage increase," says Herzenberg.

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, According to a Keystone Research
Center analysis, a proposal by Senator Rick Santorum that raises the federal
minimum wage is actually a threat to many workers' incomes.
"The Santorum proposal will actually hurt many low-wage workers.
"Pennsylvania's low-wage workers deserve a nice, clean increase in the
minimum wage, the first since 1997. If the minimum wage had kept pace with
productivity growth since 1968 it would now be $14 per hour.

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25 per
hour from the current $5.10 per hour over 18 months, it would change various workplace rules to
eliminate or reduce the benefit of the raise for many workers," said Stephen
Herzenberg, an economist and executive director of the Harrisburg-based
Keystone Research Center. The Santorum amendment
would allow employers to pay nothing to their tipped employees as long as
workers' tips added up to the minimum wage.

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The RWDSU represents 100,000 members throughout the U.

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Today, Sunday, May 1 , they will be joined by retail workers, consumers,
churches, students, labor unions, community organizations and politicians to
kick off the campaign with a rally at 12 noon, at 301 Grove, between
Knickerbocker and Myrtle Avenues.

Santorum Federal Minimum Wage Proposal Would Hurt Many Low-Wage Workers Keystone Research Finds

Among the most
important protections is the right to receive overtime pay .

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The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and community group, Make The
Road By Walking, highlight poor working conditions, low wages of Brooklyn's
immigrant retail workers

NEW YORK, The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store
Union (RWDSU) and the Brooklyn -based community group, Make the Road by Walking
(MRW), have joined forces for an "Awake Bushwick " Campaign highlighting the
poor working conditions of workers in retail shops on the Knickerbockers
Avenue shopping strip in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Thousands of
Pennsylvania workers engaged in interstate commerce are now protected by
the provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

Allow Smaller Employers to Escape Responsibility for Workplace Rule and
Safety Violations.

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25 per hour. Leaving aside its
other features, the Santorum proposal only gets the inflation-adjusted
minimum wage back to where it was in 1997.

affective inequality

Under current
law a worker who worked 50 hours in one week and 30 in the next gets 10
hours of overtime pay . Even the Kennedy proposal, by the time it is fully phased in, would
make up for only a small part of the increase in productivity since 1997.
"Senator Santorum appears not to believe that hard -working Pennsylvania
workers should share in an expanding economic pie," concluded Herzenberg.

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Retail Workers in Bushwick Join Labor Community Religious Groups for May 1 March Demanding Better Wages Working Conditions

They don't deserve a cynical political
play for their support that will sometimes make paying the bills even harder.

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and Canada
including 40,000 in New York.15 per hour and has been put forward as an
alternative to a proposal from Senator Kennedy that would raise the minimum to
$7.

Focus is on work as a part of life: the work ethic, balancing work with family life, work schedules , etc.

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"All of these stores now pay the minimum wage or below the legal wage,"
said Appelbaum describing "a downward spiral that sees a growing number of New
York retail workers who qualify for Medicaid, food stamps, rent subsidies and
other family assistance, because they don't get adequate wages or benefits.
Because unionization generally raises workers' wages and benefits
significantly , that is the most effective way to change things.S. The RWDSU is affiliated with the UFCW, AFL-CIO,
CLC. The Senator
appears to be counting on the press to gloss over the details of his proposal . That's the only way to make sense of a
proposal that piles backdoor cuts onto a minimum wage change that isn't itself
an increase but just compensates for the effect of eight years of inflation.

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Under the Santorum amendment the same worker would
receive no overtime pay.

"Senator Santorum wants to have it both ways: to be seen as proposing a
minimum wage increase by Pennsylvanians generally while his supporters in the
restaurant industry and other low-wage employers know that this is actually a
minimum wage cut," says Herzenberg.
"More than this, he doesn't appear to believe that they should even maintain
their current standard of living.

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The amendment would prevent
states from adopting any law to the contrary.

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"While Senator Santorum's amendment would raise the federal minimum wage
by $1. The amendment
would replace the 40-hour work week with an 80 hour two -week accounting
period that would change the calculation of overtime hours."
"It is also important," Herzenberg added, "to compare the competing
minimum wage proposals with inflation and with productivity growth since
1997.

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RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum says the right to join a union will
provide a more permanent, longterm remedy.

Force Tipped Employees to Work for Tips Only. The Santorum amendment would exempt businesses with
revenues of under $7 million from paying fines for rule violations under
current law.

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The Santorum proposal would increase the federal minimum wage to $6.

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According to Keystone, the Santorum amendment would:

Reduce Overtime Pay by Abolishing the 40-Hour Work Week.
From the 1940s to 1968, the federal minimum wage kept pace with
productivity growth and low-wage workers shared equally in the overall
improvement in living standards.