Mayor Harris voices support to pay SCS cafeteria workers a living wage
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris offered his support to the Shelby County School system to increase pay to part time cafeteria workers and allow those workers to make $15 per hour.
In a press conference Wednesday, Harris and the Shelby County Commission presented their joint resolution in support of all SCS part time cafeteria employees making a living wage, which would canada goose outlet in usa include 681 employees.
Harris said 200,000 people in the county live in poverty and do not know where their next nutritious meal will come from. He said the people who feed Shelby County children meals at school should not have to worry about feeding their own children at canada goose outlet sale home.
solution to poverty in our area is to pay people a living wage, Harris said. canada goose cheap canada goose outlet canada here today because we can wait to talk about canada goose store this much longer. Harris said it time for the next biggest public entity in the county to join them.
Harris said the 681 part Canada Goose Outlet time SCS cafeteria workers now make between $11.57 and $14.17 per hour.
was raised here, and I went uk canada goose outlet to the public schools here, and I can tell you that the work canada goose outlet toronto factory of the cafeteria workers is worthy and is important, Harris said. work of our cafeteria Canada Goose online workers is as worthy and as important as any other employee in the school building, including the principal. is set to present his budget for the next fiscal year on June 30 to the canada goose coats on sale County Commission, and he wants to have these discussions now so they can be accounted for in the new budget. He said all canada goose factory outlet three entities SCS, the County Commission and the Mayor Office must collaborate together to make this decision.
Harris said this could cost the county anywhere from $1.8 million to $5.6 million, but cheap canada goose he thinks it can be done on the lower end of that scale. He said not much canada goose outlet reviews progress has been made on this issue so canada goose outlet uk sale far, so he wanted to show his support now and allow budget discussions canada goose clearance sale to commence.
Phillip Foreman, a part time cafeteria worker at Ridgeway High School, was in attendance at the press conference to voice his thankfulness to the county for canada goose outlet nyc supporting canada goose outlet parka him making a living wage.
do the same work that full time workers do, canada goose outlet online uk no https://www.nationaalzweminstituuteindhoven.nl less, canada goose outlet online sometimes more, Foreman said. us the same wages that all the rest of the employees have gotten in Memphis. I walk home in the evening trying to make sure cheap canada goose uk my family gets what they need. hopes to have the extra funds for SCS approved canada goose factory sale in the next budget.