Business Leaders Join Lt. Gov. Stack at Launch of Campaign to Raise PA...
Online Business Petition Now Collecting SignaturesHarrisburg, February 9, 2015 – Lancaster business owner Charlie Crystle, Co-Founder and CEO of Lancaster Food Company and a member of Business for a...
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For Immediate Release: February 19, 2015Contact: Bob Keener, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.org, 617-610-6766Press statement from Holly Sklar, CEO of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, about Walmart's...
View ArticleBusiness Owners Praise Plan to Raise PA Minimum Wage As Gov. Wolf Set to...
For Immediate Release: March 2, 2015Contact Bob Keener, 617-610-6766, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.orgHarrisburg, PA – Business owners from across the commonwealth today released statements praising...
View ArticleBusiness Owners Support $12 By 2020 Minimum Wage To Be Introduced Today In...
Eileen Fisher, Ben and Jerry’s, Zingerman’s Among First Signers On New Business Petition For Higher Minimum WageFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 30, 2015Contact: Bob Keener,...
View ArticlePA Business Owners Testify in Support of Raising Minimum Wage at State Senate...
Stronger Minimum Wage is Good for Business and the EconomyFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 5, 2015CONTACT: Bob Keener, 617-610-6766, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.orgHarrisburg – Business owners Bobby Fry...
View ArticleBusinesses Set to Benefit from July 1 Minimum Wage Increases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:June 30, 2015CONTACT:Bob Keener, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.org, 617-610-6766WASHINGTON, DC – Business owners are welcoming the minimum wage increases effective July 1 in...
View ArticleBusiness Owners Applaud Kansas City Minimum Wage Hike
For Immediate Release: July 16, 2015Contact Bob Keener, 617-610-6766, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.orgKANSAS CITY, MO – Business leaders applauded today’s action by the Kansas City Council to...
View ArticleFriday Will Mark 6 Years Since Last Federal Minimum Wage Increase; Business...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 20, 2015CONTACT: Bob Keener, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.org, 617-610-6766WASHINGTON, DC – This Friday, July 24, will mark six years since the federal minimum wage was...
View ArticleBusiness Owners Call for Minimum Wage Raise As Federal Minimum Stuck Below...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 2, 2015CONTACT: Bob Keener, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.org, 617-610-6766Business owners and executives across America are calling for an increase in the federal...
View ArticleBusiness Owners Back New Year Minimum Wage Hikes in 14 States, Call for...
Contact: Bob Keener, 617-610-6766, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.orgWashington, DC, December 23, 2015 – Fourteen states are raising their minimum wage next week with strong support from business...
View ArticleBusinesses Applaud Gov. Wolf’s New Minimum Wage Executive Order and Call for...
Harrisburg, PA, March 7, 2016. – Pennsylvania business owners joined Governor Tom Wolf as he signed an Executive Order establishing a minimum wage of $10.15 an hour for state employees under his...
View ArticleCalifornia Business Owners Speak Out in Support of Just-Passed Historic...
For immediate release: March 31, 2016CONTACT: Erin Musgrave, 530-864-7014 , erin@erinmusgravecommunications.comor Bob Keener, 617-610-6766, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.orgSmall business owners...
View ArticleNew York Businesses Voice Support of $15 Minimum Wage Passing Today
Greater New York Chamber of Commerce, Ben and Jerry’s, Small Business Owners Upstate and Downstate Say Raise Good for Business, EconomyContact: Bob Keener, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.org,...
View ArticleBusiness Owners Tell Congress Raising the Wage Makes Economic Sense
Business owners from across the country testified before the House Democratic Caucus today about the benefits of raising the federal minimum wageWashington, DC, April 27, 2016—Today business owners...
View ArticleSBA’s Small Business Owners of the Year Call for Federal Minimum Wage Hike
Owners named by the U.S. Small Business Administration as Louisiana and Maine’s 2016 Small Business People of the Year call on lawmakers to increase federal minimum wage to at least $12 by 2020CONTACT:...
View ArticleBusiness Owners Testify in Support of $15 at D.C. Council Hearing on Minimum...
CONTACT: Erin Musgrave, (530) 864-7014, erin@erinmusgravecommunications.comWashington, D.C. May 26, 2016 — Local business owners testified today in support of raising Washington, D.C.’s minimum wage to...
View ArticlePassage of D.C. $15 Minimum Wage Will Boost Local Economy, Businesses
CONTACT: Erin Musgrave, 530-864-7014, erin@erinmusgravecommunications.com OR Bob Keener, 617-610-6766, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.org Washington, D.C. June 7, 2016— Passage today of a bill...
View ArticleNashville Business Owner Named White House ‘Champion of Change’ for Fair Pay...
CONTACT: Erin Musgrave, 530-864-7014 or erin@erinmusgravecommunications.comSherry Stewart Deutschmann, owner of LetterLogic in Nashville and a member of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, named a...
View ArticleDC Businesses Applaud Mayor Signing $15 Minimum Wage Bill into Law
Mayor Bowser will visit &pizza and sign $15 minimum wage bill into law, as additional Business for a Fair Minimum Wage members attend in supportCONTACT: Erin Musgrave, (530) 864-7014,...
View ArticleBusinesses Across the Country to Benefit from July Minimum Wage Increases
For immediate release: June 29, 2016CONTACT: Bob Keener, 617-610-6766, bob@businessforafairminimumwage.org or Erin Musgrave, 530-864-7014, erin@erinmusgravecommunications.comBusiness owners across the...
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