Join Us in the Fight for a Full and Fair Wage

Join our fight for a full and fair minimum wage in Illinois! Sign up to show your support and get the most up-to-date alerts for meetings, rallies, and events. We cannot advance racial justice, gender equity, and workplace safety without eliminating the subminimum wage—and you can make it happen! Scroll down to sign on.

Read the Illinois Full and Fair Wage Coalition’s statement on the Illinois budget, which included $50 million of relief funds for restaurants—without a guarantee that help will mean meaningful relief for Illinois’s restaurant workers.

Download these reports from our partners at One Fair Wage to learn more about why this fight is so important to Illinois:

A Persistent Legacy of Slavery: Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers in Illinois as a Racial Equity Measure
Take Off Your Mask So I Know How Much to Tip You: a report on Illinois Service Workers’ Experience of Health and Harassment during COVID-19
It’s Time to End the Subminimum: Illinois Brief on the Tipped Minimum Wage as a Gender Equity Issue

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Join Us in the Fight for a Full and Fair Wage

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