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Signings for Fair Work Week (Bill No. 180649) and City Worker Minimum Wage (Bill No. 180846).
Read Bill No. 180649: http://bit.ly/2QHlRi7
Read Bill No. 180846: http://bit.ly/2QHlRi7
Speakers:
Mayor Kenney
Councilwoman Helen Gym (At Large)
Councilman Mark Squilla (2nd District)
Danny Bauder, Philadelphia AFL-CIO
Rev. Gregory Holston, Executive Director, POWER | Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower & Rebuild
A
That
could
not
be
more
excited
to
sign
into
law
legislation
we'll
make
sure
all
employees
of
the
city
and
city
contractors
earn
what
they
deserve,
which
is
a
minimum
wage
of
$15
an
hour
we're
looking
forward
to
the
day
when
the
state
will
Alice
to
raise
the
minimum
wage
to
$15
an
hour
for
every
Philadelphia
worker.
Every
Pennsylvania.
A
As
important
as
happening
and
living
wages,
I
also
can't
overstate
how
critical
it
is
for
workers
across
the
city
to
have
consistent
schedule
each
and
every
week.
If
your
schedule
is
changing,
weekly
or
even
daily,
then
it's
incredibly
difficult
to
arrange
childcare
schedule,
medical
appointments
and
plan
your
day
to
day
life.
The
bottom
line
is
that
employees
need
to
know
in
advance
when
they're
scheduled
to
work.
1-Hour,
Fair,
Work
Week
bill
is
going
to
help
many
Philadelphia
workers
have
more
stability,
they're
going
to
be
better
positioned
to
get
ahead
and
stay
ahead
together.
A
These
measures
are
going
to
make
a
very
meaningful
impact
on
the
lives
of
many
Philadelphians
and
I'm,
so
proud
of
both
pieces
of
legislation
that
I'm
about
to
sign
when
everyone's
finished
speaking
I
want
to
applaud
city
council
for
passing
these
bills
to
support
our
workers.
Once
again,
the
council
has
put
the
needs
of
working
philadelphians
at
the
forefront
of
their
legislative
agenda,
like
especially
recognize
Councilwoman,
Helen,
Jim
and
Council
in
March
Scala,
for
their
leadership
and
for
being
such
strong
advocates
of
this
legislation
along
with
councilman
Green
Green
League.
That's
here.
A
B
All
right
well,
thank
you
very
much
mr.
mayor
and
thank
you
to
everybody
in
this
room.
This
is
a
fantastic
day
for
Philadelphia
and
speaks
volumes
to
where
we
are,
as
a
city.
I
spent
the
last
part
of
the
better
part
of
the
last
year.
Listening
to
the
stories
of
working
Philadelphians,
all
across
the
city,
I'm
grateful
for
each
and
every
one
of
those
who
came
forward
step
forward
and
told
us
the
stories
of
what
it
means
to
live.
B
Work
raise
a
family,
go
to
school
dream
of
a
city
that
is
better
than
the
one
that
we
have
today
to
talk
about,
how
much
you
loved
your
families
to
care
for
them,
especially
your
children
and
and
the
promise
of
a
better
future
that
we
can
build
today.
So
today,
is
for
all
of
you,
and
today
is
for
all
the
working
moms
and
dads
out
there
who
are
juggling
multiple
jobs
simply
to
put
a
roof
over
their
heads
and
food
on
the
table
or
to
hold
their
families
together.
B
Today
is,
for
you
know
every
working
Philadelphian
who
knows
that
one
job
should
be
enough.
It's
for
every
young
person
and
every
returning
citizen
who's
working
towards
a
better
life
for
themselves.
It's
for
the
phenomenal
advocates,
organizers
and
civil,
civic
and
faith
leaders
in
our
city,
our
business
leaders,
who
are
working
together
to
make
this
a
better
City
for
everybody,
and
today
in
this
city,
which
is
the
poorest
city
in
the
country.
B
It
matters
that
we
say
that
poverty
is
not
inevitable,
that
we
make
choices
about
poverty
each
and
every
day,
and
it's
a
problem
that
we
can
do
something
about
so
the
Fair
Work
Week
law,
together
with
a
$15
an
hour
minimum
wage,
is
a
guarantee
not
for
a
$15
minimum
wage
guarantee
for
city
workers,
puts
forward
an
economic
dignity,
promise
to
all
philadelphians
that
no
matter
what's
happening
in
DC
or
Harrisburg.
This
is
still
our
city
and
we
are
gonna
look
out
for
our
people.
B
So
things
this
big
don't
happen
alone.
They
happen
in
concert
with
a
huge
coalition
that
came
together
that
spans
of
diversity
and
breadth
of
this
phenomenal
city,
that
I
love,
fantastic
partners
in
health
care
and
child
advocates,
educators
and
teachers
to
democratic
socialists,
one
Pennsylvania,
civic
groups,
our
faith
community
and
clergy
who
brought
home
the
moral
argument
to
our
business
community,
including
our
vibrant,
independent
businesses,
sustainable
business
network
and
so
many
more
in
my
first
term.
I'm
really
grateful
to
be
part
of
a
City
Council.
B
Thank
you
so
much
to
my
partners,
my
my
council
president
Darrell
Clarke,
who
guided
me
through
a
complicated
process
to
the
to
my
council
members
here
today.
Councilman
marks,
Willa
and
Councilman
Greenlee
I
do
express
my
deepest
gratitude
since
and
and
Councilman
come
Murray
Canyon
as
Sanchez,
who
was
there
right
at
the
forefront
with
us
right
at
the
beginning,
even
before
this
started
out.
I
also
want
to
thank
mayor
Kenny
and
his
terrific
team,
and
especially
deputy
mayor
rich
laser
for
partnering
with
us
and
being
such
a
fantastic
advocate.
I.
B
Want
to
take
a
moment
just
to
acknowledge
a
few
other
people
bill
Sasso,
who
is
here
today
representing
the
Chamber
of
Commerce,
executive
leadership,
team
and
afl-cio
president
Patrick
iding
who's
represented
here
by
Danny
powder.
You
both
were
instrumental
in
building
out
an
engagement
process
that
proves
that
partnership
on
anti-poverty
measures
can
work
for
citizens
for
business
and
for
a
better
city.
So
thank
you
and
I
also
want
to
take
a
minute
and
just
thank
my
staff,
often
times
in
government.
B
Council
members
get
to
sit
at
a
podium,
will
lead
behind
the
bill
signing,
but
this
bill
and
this
fight
has
been
led
by
by
my
staff,
a
fierce,
relentless
uncompromising
crew
of
dreamers
and
obsessives,
who
believe
that,
when
people-power
meets
smart
policy
nothing's
impossible,
you
prove
it
every
day.
It's
amazing
to
work
with
you,
so
anyway,
our
politics
are
only
as
strong
as
our
movements
we're
talking
about
what
that
means
here
today
and
I'm
grateful
to
be
part
of
all
of
this.
Thank
you.
C
Thank
You
mayor
Thank,
You,
Councilwoman
Helen
again.
Thank
you
so
much
for
your
leadership
on
this
and
I
want
to
say
this
has
been
a
long
road.
We,
as
you
heard
about
the
Fair
Work
Week
scheduling
legislation,
but
also
to
$15
an
hour
legislation.
That's
been
going
on
for
many
years
and
I
was
running
for
office.
He
had
made
this
one
of
his
main
priorities
to
try
to
get
this
15
hour
wage
put
into
the
city
of
Philadelphia
and
meeting
with
power.
C
I
remember
we
were
to
a
July
4th
ceremony
down
with
a
Kate
Esposito,
and
it
came
up
to
me
and
said:
would
you
support
a
$15,
an
hour
wage
increase
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia
and
it
was
during
the
immigration.
People
were
becoming
new
and
American
citizens
and
I
was
all
excited
about
I,
said
sure
yeah.
Why
not?
Let's
do
it
and
we
did
it.
It
took
a
couple
years,
but
we
did
it,
but
we
didn't
do
a
lot
of
hard
work
and
I
got
to
thank
power
and
the
Reverend.
C
C
Seiu
was
a
big
part
of
it,
a
United
here,
obviously,
and
as
you
see
afl-cio
and
to
be
hearing
from
Danny,
a
little
shirt
of
a
patty
eating
was
a
big
part
of
pushing
this
agenda
forward
and
our
big.
Our
big
statement
we
always
made
was:
let's
lead
by
example.
Right.
Let's
make
that
initial
push
and,
as
you
see,
Jefferson
I'm
proud
to
be
in
my
district,
has
now
followed
us
and
also
done
the
same
thing,
and
we
hope
many
more
will
do
that.
But
this
doesn't
happen
without
great
leadership
from
the
top
and
I.
C
C
D
I
want
to
thank
our
union
affiliates,
the
Philadelphia
Federation
of
Teachers
Communication,
Workers,
Local,
13,000,
United,
Food
and
Commercial
Workers,
1776,
KS
and,
of
course,
UNITE
HERE,
Local
274,
for
the
work
that
you
do
every
day
for
your
members
and
for
leading
the
change
to
raise
the
standard
of
living
so
that
many
workers
in
Philadelphia
who
don't
have
the
benefit
of
a
collective
bargaining
agreement
yet
can
receive
this
kind
of
security
and
protection
in
their
workplace.
These
wins
for
workers
come
after
a
year
of
organizing
meeting
deliberating
and
even
marching
in
the
streets.
D
People-Powered
movements
continue
to
succeed
in
Philadelphia,
whether
it
be
the
drive
for
paid
sick
time,
justice
for
service
workers
in
hotels
and
at
the
airport,
fair
wages
and
standards
on
construction
sites
or
a
predictable
work
schedule.
Working
people
are
winning
and
are
truly
blessed
to
have
an
advocate
like
our
mayor,
Jim
Kenney.
Thank
you
very
much.
E
In
my
name
is
Reverend
Gregory
Holson,
the
executive
director
of
power
power
is
sixty
five-plus
now
moving
to
about
a
hundred
congregations
across
the
city
of
Philadelphia,
in
our
surrounding
counties
and
now
building
out
in
Lancaster,
Harrisburg
and
and
Allentown
areas.
We
are
building
communities
of
opportunity
that
work
for
all
faith
is
the
foundation
of
everything
we
do
and
racial
justice
is
at
the
center
of
all
of
our
work
and
we're
so
proud
to
be
here
with
these
two
bills
being
signed
together.
E
E
We're
so
thankful
for
all
of
your
work
to
bring
all
of
your
colleagues
together
and
we're
thankful
for
all
of
the
council
people
who
voted
for
this
bill.
We're
also
thankful
for
the
bear.
As
was
indicated,
the
mayor
did
run
on
this
issue
and,
as
we
were
just
joking
talking
about,
it
takes
a
little
time
sometimes
to
get
to
where
we
need
to
get
to,
but
we're
so
thankful.
E
And
also
your
staff,
your
wonderful
staff
led
by
rich
laser,
who
was
always
there
for
us,
as
we
talked
over
the
numbers
and
fought
over
the
numbers
and
and
did
what
we
had
to
do
it.
You
had
some
strong
negotiators,
the
power
economic
dignity
team
worked
you
over
a
little
bit
just
like
they
worked
me
over
every
now
and
then,
but
we
managed
to
get
it
done.
So
we
thank
you
rich
as
well,
and
so
I
will
thank
our
power
economic
dignity
team
for
all
the
work
they've
done.
E
This
has
been
a
three-year
process
for
us
of
working
together,
so
if
they
would
just
stand
for
a
moment,
I
just
want
them
to
be
acknowledged,
though
all
those
who
are
here
co-chairs
Kate,
Esposito,
Terry,
Virgin,
Paula,
Paul,
Powell,
Duncan,
Francis
Upshaw
and
our
staff
organizer
on
it
as
well.
George
stand
up
on
Jordan.
Let's
give
our
staff
a
hand
all
the
work.
E
Thank
you
all.
Thank
you
so
much
for
putting
up
with
me
through
the
process,
but
we
managed
to
get
it
done
and
the
success
stays
with
you
and
that
team
and
all
the
people
that's
much
bigger
team.
All
the
team
that
does
all
the
work
to
makes
a
difference
in
our
city
I
want
to
thank
our
allies
as
well.
I
want
to
thank
SEIU
and
their
work
around
this
bill,
but
also
unite
here
for
all
of
what
you
do.
We
can
always
count
on
unite
here
to
be
at
every
hearing:
turnout
at
every
council
meeting.
E
E
And
so
all
of
the
allies
that
were
a
part
of
all
the
DS
bills,
we
are
so
excited
to
be
with
you
and
I
guess.
This
is
a
moment
in
time
where
we
can
recognize
of
what
was
built
here
to
be
able
to
pass
these
two
but
bills
by
such
a
wide
margin
that
both
of
these
bills
were
talked
about
two
years
ago,
as
dead
on
arrival
that
there
would
not
be
any
support
for
these
two
bills,
but
the
allies
that
have
come
together.
E
The
teams
of
people
that
have
worked
together,
the
the
energy
that
has
come
together
to
shape
a
new
agenda
for
our
city.
It's
a
precious
moment
in
time
when
you
realize
that
it
all
come
together
to
sign
these
bills.
But
it's
a
recognition
not
just
for
this
moment
in
time,
but
also
what
can
be
if
we
decide
to
build
together
and
work
together
and
remain
allies
and
to
build
a
new
agenda
for
our
city.
E
For
for
we
know
that
this
is
the
poorest
big
city
in
in
the
in
the
country
and
for
we
know
that
is
26%
poverty
rate
is
just
too
much
and
for
we
know
that
14%
of
our
people
that
live
in
deep
poverty,
almost
200,000
people
is
intolerable
and
has
been
intolerable
for
a
long
long
time.
We
know
all
of
these
things,
and
now
we
have
the
capacity
to
change
it.
Now
we
have
the
capacity
to
build
a
brighter
way
for
everyone.
E
Now
we
can
remain
together
and
continue
to
work
together
and
continue
to
come
up
with
new
strategies
and
new
legislation
and
new
initiatives
to
really
bitter
dent
into
that
poverty
reign.
We
know
these
bills
will
do
that.
They
will
take
a
dent
out
that
they
will
cause
mothers
who
could
not
afford
it
to
be
able
to
take
care
of
their
children
better.
We
know
that
families
and
marriages
will
stay
together
more
because
they
now
have
more
income,
because
income
is
one
of
the
main
reasons
marriages
fail.
E
We
know
that
children
will
do
better
in
school
when
they
have
food
on
the
table
and
a
decent
meal
that
is
provided
and,
and
we
have
the
resources
now
to
help
them
do
that.
We
know
that
we
can
build
a
better
city
by
just
getting
better
wages
for
our
workers
right
and
wages
for
our
people.
We
can
build
a
better
life
here
in
Philadelphia,
and
so
we
would
no
longer
have
these
two
cities,
one
poor
and
one
enriched
one,
black
and
one
white.
E
We
can
have
a
city
where
we
all
come
together
and
believe
together
and
hope
together
and
dream
together
and
stand
together
as
one
people
not
just
unified
by
a
football
team
but
unify
because
we
love
each
other
and
we're
going
to
work
to
make
a
better
life
for
everybody.
That's
our
goal.
Let's
start
that
fight
right
now,
let's
let
today
be
a
beginning
and
not
an
end.
Let's
let
today
be
the
kind
of
place
and
the
kind
of
time
for
the
change
that
we
need
to
make.
Thank
you
so
much
now,
let's
get
these
bills.