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Advancing the Fair-Wage Movement Resources
Listed here are resource materials that provide additional information about UUSC topics and areas of work. You'll find materials such as fact sheets, policy positions, slideshows, curricula and training materials, publications, and links to other organizations and news sources.
Title | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Report: The Hands That Feed Us | The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain is the first report of its kind that looks at wages and working conditions of workers across the entire food chain. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Webinar: Behind the Kitchen Door | Learn how to choose compassionate consumption when you dine out and be part of an exciting national campaign to support workers' rights. | Multimedia Resource |
| Supporting Restaurant Worker Justice | Synopsis of the challenges faced by restaurant workers, our strategy to influence the restaurant industry, and ways you can help. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Sample Letter to the Editor About the Minimum Wage Issue | You may use our sample letters to raise the issue of the minimum wage in your local newspapers. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Economic Justice Worship Resources | Sermons, order of service, planning materials and other resources to address issues of economic justice in your congregational service. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Roll The Dice economic justice game | Materials to play "Roll The Dice", a game that examines economic justice issues. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Voices from Southern Alternatives Agricultural Cooperative | Listen to some of the women from the Southern Alternatives Agricultural Cooperative talk about their work! | Multimedia Resource |
| To Support the WAGES Act | UUSC signed on to a letter supporting the Working for Adequate Gains for Employment in Services (WAGES) Act, which would raise the minimum wage for tipped employees. | Policy/Shareholder Position |
| State Minimum Wage Table - July 1, 2009 | Table of state minimum wages compared to the federal minimum wage. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| In Support of the Employee Free Choice Act | Letter to the U.S. House and Senate supporting the Employee Free Choice Act. | Policy/Shareholder Position |
| "Living Wage Days" Resource Guide | A comprehensive tool kit for living wage advocates. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| In Support of Significant and Sustained Public Investment as a Stimulus to the U.S. Economy | Policy/Shareholder Position | |
| Audio: Interview with Program Manager Johanna Chao Kreilick on raising the minimum wage | Radio interview of UUSC Economic Justice Manager Johanna Chao Kreilick on the KPFK Radio Show "Beneath the Surface with Jerry Quickley." | Multimedia Resource |
| Video: Introduction to the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center | An video introduction to UUSC's Economic Justice Partner, the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center. | Multimedia Resource |
| Program Manager Johanna Chao Kreilick speaks on International Women's Day | To honor International Women's Day (IWD), a group of UUSC staff attended a breakfast at Simmons College, where Johanna Chao Kreilick, manager of UUSC' | Multimedia Resource |
| Georgia Minimum Wage Letter | UUSC is calling on faith-based leaders and congregations to actively support the Georgia campaign to raise the minimum wage and to join together as p | Policy/Shareholder Position |
| UUSC Statement on Immigration | UUSC's statement on U.S. Immigration Policy | Policy/Shareholder Position |
| Covenant Group: Wage Justice | Small ministry group discussion module about the fair wage movement and the broader struggle for economic justice. | Publication |
| UUSC Economic Justice and Immigration | A human rights framework for understanding the issue of immigration in the United States. | Publication |
| Finger-Lickin' Bad | A Grist Magazine article about how poultry producers are ravaging the rural South. | Publication |
| UUSC La Marcha study guide | Accompanying guide to the DVD video La Marcha: Working for Economic Justice | Publication |
| Blood, Sweat and Fears: Workers' rights in U.S. meat and poultry plants | A report by Human Rights Watch detailing the dangerous working conditions in the U.S. meat processing industry. | Publication |
