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Oakland, CA 94601
USA
Written by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce and the California Restaurant Association, this measure would exempt 95% of Oakland employers from an Oakland minimum wage until 2017. This would include major fast food companies like McDonalds, Subway, Burger King and Popeye’s.
Please join us this Saturday, July 19th, to walk precincts and to tell the City Council to stop this competing measure.
Schedule:
Meeting starting at 9:30am
Rally at 10am
Dispatch at 10:30am
Sign up here to let us know you are coming.
Major out of town special interests are backing the effort to stop a minimum wage in Oakland. At a City Council hearing last week, the California Restaurant Association led the testimony in support of a competing measure. This group has consistently opposed raising the state minimum wage and is largely funded by major fast food chains.
If you cannot make it this weekend, please email these City Councilmembers:
Pat Kernighan
Pkernighan@oaklandnet.com
Larry Reid
lreid@oaklandnet.com
Lynette Gibson McElhaney
LMcElhaney@oaklandnet.com
Tell them to stop their efforts to confuse voters and to give major fast food corporations an exemption to a local minimum wage.
Sincerely,
The Lift Up Oakland Coalition
P.S. Make no mistake, none of these City Councilmembers want to raise the minimum wage. Councilmembers Reid and Kernighan are long time members of the City Council, and if they had wanted to raise the minimum wage, they would have introduced legislation or acted to do so years ago.