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To: CEOs
We Need Wage Increases in 2025
A new report has put into stark numbers the reality so many workers are facing: 73% of us struggle to afford anything beyond basic living expenses.
As housing costs, grocery prices, and healthcare expenses skyrocket, wages aren’t keeping up. It’s such a big gap that experts are now calling it the “Wage Crisis of 2025.”
Financial stress is at an all-time high, and many workers are forced to make impossible choices. But here’s the good news: we are not powerless.
Last year, in workplaces big and small, workers won wage increases by standing and fighting together. Now it’s time to call for massive wage increases for workers everywhere.
The biggest companies in the country are right now reporting big profits to shareholders. We need to use this moment to demand these profits get passed on as wage increases to the workers who made them happen.
As housing costs, grocery prices, and healthcare expenses skyrocket, wages aren’t keeping up. It’s such a big gap that experts are now calling it the “Wage Crisis of 2025.”
Financial stress is at an all-time high, and many workers are forced to make impossible choices. But here’s the good news: we are not powerless.
Last year, in workplaces big and small, workers won wage increases by standing and fighting together. Now it’s time to call for massive wage increases for workers everywhere.
The biggest companies in the country are right now reporting big profits to shareholders. We need to use this moment to demand these profits get passed on as wage increases to the workers who made them happen.
Why is this important?
CEOs at the biggest companies in the country have been earning 268 times what their workers are paid on average. Since 2001 profits of the retail sector have increased SIX TIMES what they were, while wages have only risen by HALF of what they were.
Meanwhile, these same corporations continue to manufacture inflation, raising prices while denying fair pay to their employees. Workers deserve better - and last year there were some big wins.
500,000 fast food workers in California are now paid $20 an hour after a landmark fight for a fast-food minimum wage. Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee won a 14% wage increase and profit-sharing by standing together for months.
These are the kinds of changes workers need EVERYWHERE so that families don’t fall apart from financial stress and people don’t go bankrupt from a single visit to the hospital.
Meanwhile, these same corporations continue to manufacture inflation, raising prices while denying fair pay to their employees. Workers deserve better - and last year there were some big wins.
500,000 fast food workers in California are now paid $20 an hour after a landmark fight for a fast-food minimum wage. Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee won a 14% wage increase and profit-sharing by standing together for months.
These are the kinds of changes workers need EVERYWHERE so that families don’t fall apart from financial stress and people don’t go bankrupt from a single visit to the hospital.
