This Sunday, June 22^nd, a coalition of organizations working for an increase to the local minimum wage both for the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County will be holding a Living Wage Town Hall at Southside Community Center, 305 S. Plain Street, Ithaca, beginning at 2:30 p.m. and ending by 4:00 p.m.

The Town Hall will be focusing on the legislative campaigns at both City and County levels for a higher local minimum wage than the NYS minimum of $15.50. The local cost of living has been rising faster than the minimum wage for decades, leaving more and more working-class people struggling to make ends meet. Now, workers are standing together to demand change, and to affirm the basic truth that everyone deserves a Living Wage!

Among the speakers will be:

·       Workers who need a Living Wage;

·       A worker who makes a Living Wage;

·       Living Wage Employer

·       Travis Brooks, Tompkins County Legislature (tentative);

·       Veronica Pillar, Tompkins County Legislature;

·       Rob Cantelmo, Mayor of the City of Ithaca;

·       Kayla Matos, Ithaca Common Council;

·       Tiffany Kumar, Ithaca Common Council;

·       Ian Greer, Senior Researcher for the Cornell ILR School’s Co-Lab;

·       Pete Meyers, Tompkins County Workers’ Center.

Coalition sponsors include: Southside Community Center; Tompkins County Workers’ Center; Ithaca DSA; UAW Local 2300; Tompkins County Immigrant Rights Coalition; Tompkins County Working Families Party; Mutual Aid Tompkins; Ithaca Tenants Union; Feeding New York State; Rochester Regional Joint Board, Workers United; Landmarks Building LLC (a certified Living Wage Employer).