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March 8, 2004

HB1778, relative to the minimum wage

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March 8, 2004

Action Alert
Take action today on HB1778, relative to the minimum wage.

The following is a Legislative Alert forwarded to you from our friends at the NH Women's Lobby/NH Women's Policy Institute.

Learn more about NOW's work on Economic Equality at:
http://www.now.org/issues/economic/index.html

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March 08, 2004
International Women's Day - established 1908, in part to address child labor issues; please help commemorate by addressing the labor issue of the NH minimum wage !

Please pass this information to everyone you know and please try to make it to the hearing - showing our numbers, gay and non-gay is extremely important!

What: HB1278 relative to the minimum wage
When: House votes on Thursday March 11, 2004

Action needed: phone calls to this list of Representatives - even if this list does not include YOUR Representative, as a member of the NHWL you are entitled to speak on behalf of our issues to any Representative to the General Court.

MESSAGE to the Representatives:

The current minimum wage is $5.15. It hasnıt changed since 1997, although the costs of housing, utilities and health care certainly have, and it is having a direct effect on your constituents. It is the large retail chains, not the majority of NH owned businesses, who are paying the minimum wage and forcing wage earners to seek assistance at local welfare offices, which as you know is funded by the local property tax.

We are asking for your support of HB1278 with its floor amendment - the Labor committee voted 10-9 to kill the bill, however the floor amendment offers a compromise: it raises the minimum wage one time, to $6 per hour, and it establishes a study committee to examine issues relative to the minimum wage.

The bill is in your House calendar, with the amendment, and it will be voted on this Thursday, March 11... This is a very important issue for the Womenıs Lobby, so I hope we may we count on your support.

Please Call:
LIST OF REPS; PLEASE CALL AND ASK FOR SUPPORT FOR THE INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE; HB1278, FLOOR AMENDMENT ON MARCH 11,2004

John Alger, Rumney: 786-9562
Lawrence Artz, Nashua: 883-0088
John Balcom, Merrimack: 424-8422
J.Gail Barry, Manchester: 625-8174
William Beaton, Manchester: 623-9238
Roland Belanger, Salem: 893-0659
Elbert Bicknell, Deerfield: 463-9783
Pierre Bruno, New Boston: 487-2612
Harriet Cady, Deerfield: 463-9727
Kenneth Cail, Manchester: 622-3803
Packy Campbell, Farmington: 859-6273
Jeffrey Carter, Manchester: 623-3745
Sam Cataldo, Farmington: 859-1089
Robert Chabot, Manchester: 625-5617
Chris Christensen, Merrimack: 424-2542
Charles Clark, Gilford: 293-9194
David Currier, Henniker: 428-3579
Eric Daniels, Concord: 224-9478
Vivian Desmarais, Manchester: 641-5142
Judson Dexter, Swanzey: 352-1184
Kim Dionne, Antrim: 588-2743
James Duffy, Sandown: 887-1894
Dudley Dumaine, Londonderry: 537-1744
Larry Emerton, Goffstown: 624-2826
Bob Fesh, Derry: 434-1550
James Fitzgerald, Laconia: 524-4483
John Flanders, Kingston: 642-3640
Albert Foley, Andover: 735-5980
Thomas Gillick, Hampton: 929-1093
Ed Gionet, Lincoln: 745-2240
Ken Gould, Derry: 432-9189
Peter Goyette, Hudson: 598-4744
Harry Haytayan, Hollis: 881-5293
James Headd, Auburn: 669-8310
Robert Holbrook, Laconia: 524-4014
Gary Hopper, Weare: 529-7728
Karen Hutchinson, Londonderry: 434-9415
William Infantine, Manchester: 622-3325
Russel Ingram, Salem: 893-4498
Bettie Kenney, Sanbornville: 522-3136
James Lawrence, Hudson: 594-8831
Rudy Lessard, Hudson: 579-0356
Richard McCann, Seabrook: 394-0226
Irene Messier, Manchester: 622-9146
William Mosher, Nashua: 889-5526
Richard Noyes, North Salem: 893-1192
Lori OıBrien, Bennington: 588-4074
J.Lisbeth Olimpio, Sanbornville: 522-8503
Dennis Reed, Franklin: 934-3657
Michael Scanlon, Bedford: 472-2056
Jeffrey Sullivan, Manchester: 668-9246
Arthur Tufts, Exeter: 772-3483
Kevin Waterhouse, Windham: 883-1672
Norman Weldy, Raymond: 895-4717
Robert Wiley, Derry: 432-9916
George Winchell, Atkinson: 362-4249

NOTE: Please send the Women's Lobby any comments so that we can get an idea of how these Reps are regarding the issue; the phone calls are more effective than e-mails,and show the strength of the constituency for this issue.

Heartfelt thanks,
Sheila Evans
Public Policy Director
NH Women's Lobby/NH Women's Policy Institute
PO Box 1072
Concord, NH 03302-1072
(phone) 603-224-9105
(fax) 603-224-0033
(e-mail) nhwomen@earthlink.net

For more information, email Seacoast NOW at info@seacoastnow.org.

Last Updated March 08, 2004