Hundreds of thousands of workers in Pennsylvania’s non-union businesses and industries are increasingly coming to realize that their employers have little or no interest in providing them with a decent living wage. They need adequate compensation necessary to support a working family, as well as the broader community they live in.
It never ceases to amaze one how many business organizations fail to grasp a simple reality:
Low wage working families will never possess the means to support their local hardware store, or as showroom customers of new car dealers, or as prospective home buyers, or as investors in their local banker’s savings accounts, money markets and CD accounts, as well as to have the means to contribute meaningfully to the community’s many other local businesses.
The severely limited family income levels of these same sub-standard wage non-union workers limits them to little more than buying food for their families and paying monthly rent to their landlord.
...And as for the little money that is left?
It will probably go to the local Walmart.
Community business leaders need to seriously re-think the extremely negative impact of employers who fail to provide wages that support working families, as well as the many local businesses and the broader community that everyone is a part of.
Matt Thomas

We need to push to keep it going in a positive direction. Saw that some reps including murphy and gerlach voted down the miner’s safety act. Totally dispicable. Bush is threatening to veto it.