$15 Minimum Wage Campaign

$15 Minimum Wage Campaign

 

Filipino Workers Network supports campaigns on issues that will improve the standard and quality of living of workers.

Decent Hours for Decent Incomes

A decent minimum wage is a central part of lifting workers out of poverty, but there are many other changes that need to be made to push back against low-wage and precarious work.

We need decent hours of work that we can live on. A third of workers in part-time jobs want full time work but can’t get it. Involuntary part-time means workers struggle to make ends meet, and often have to cobble together several jobs to get by. But part-time, casual, and temporary agency jobs can have erratic and unpredictable hours, and employers are increasingly moving to “just-in-time” scheduling that leaves workers scrambling to organize their work, family and other responsibilities. Read More…