Public hearing on Monday January 25 at 10:00 AM. City Council, 414 Grant St., Fifth Floor, Downtown Pittsburgh. Call Pittsburgh UNITED at 412-231-8648 if you need a ride. For more more information on the bill and the campaign to pass the bill into law, check out the Pittsburgh United website.
Minimum Wage Laws in The United States
Pittsburgh living wage bill put on hold
If implemented, the city's living wage bill would affect for-profit employers with at least 10 employees or non-profit employers with at least 25 employees. The measure would also extend to city authorities. The hourly rate for employees has not been calculated.
Everyone here knows our council is supportive of good wages," said Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak. "But there's definitely a difference between prevailing wage and living wage."
Photo above:Ketchup Filling, 1901. H.J. Heinz Company first introduced ketchup in 1876 as a natural, pure product, without any artificial preservatives, a concept that was not very common in the food industry at that time. Many of the glass bottles were blown in nearby Sharpsburg, where the H.J. Heinz Company was originally founded. Today, in the United States, ketchup is found in 97 percent of all households, and four out of five restaurants. More than 1,000 women worked at the H.J. Heinz Company main plant in Allegheny City (currently Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhood) in 1902. Over half, about 56 percent, of the plant's workers were women. Women who started working at the plant at age fourteen were paid only half the wage paid to boys of the same age for doing the same work. For example, women who packed crackers were paid $.50 for a ten-hour day, while unskilled men laborers whose jobs were to fetch and carry were paid between $1.30 and $1.65 for the same ten-hour day. Collection Number: MSP57.B001.I06Collection: H.J. Heinz Company, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
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