Jane Fonda Visits Newark, Calls for $15 Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers [View all]
NEWARK, NJ - Jane Fonda got higher wages for women through unscrupulous means in the 1980's comedy "9 to 5," but now she's advocating for a $15 minimum wage for tipped workers in more traditional ways.
The Academy Award-winning actor and activist spoke at Rutgers University-Newark today with advocacy groups and a state lawmaker to support a $15 minimum wage, especially for restaurant workers who make a federal minimum wage of $2.13 an hour plus tips in New Jersey.
“Being an actor, I tend to try to put myself in the situation of a person that's facing this problem, and I just don't know how more than 13 million people in the United States survives with that kind of stress,” Fonda said, later adding “some people in this country are so rich that they don't even know what to do with all their money.”
Two-thirds of tipped workers are women, a group Fonda has heavily advocated for. Nearly 90 percent of women in the restaurant industry have reported sexual harassment in the workplace, according to a nonprofit that advocates for service sector employees known as Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) Action.
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