Subject: [big campaign] FW: RELEASE: Sen. Specter, Do the Right Thing: Vote "Yea" to Equal Pay
From: "Brad Woodhouse" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:57:03 -0500
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

FYI - The Fair Pay Act is up in the Senate as early as tomorrow (cloture
vote).  Releases like this have gone out calling on a number of members
to support the bill.  In addition to Specter - prime targets include
Murkowski and Hutchinson.  We also have calls going into a bunch of
offices as well.

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From: Lauren Weiner 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:47 PM
To: Lauren Weiner
Subject: RELEASE: Sen. Specter, Do the Right Thing: Vote "Yea" to Equal
Pay

 

IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                 Contact: Lauren
Weiner, 202-470-5870

January 14, 2009
Jeremy Funk, 202-470-5878

 

Sen. Specter, Do the Right Thing: Vote "Yea" to Equal Pay

Passing the Fair Pay Act Ensures Women Will Receive Equal Pay for Equal
Work

            Washington, D.C. - Americans United for Change
<http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/>  today called on Sen. Arlen
Specter to vote for the Fair Pay Act
<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:SN00181:>  which would
represent a significant step forward on ensuring equal pay for women who
perform equal work on the job as their male counterparts.  After the
House passed <http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll009.xml>  its version,
the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.00011:> , for the
second time, last week, the Senate is expected to vote on the bill
tomorrow.

            "This is 2009.  It is well past time that we eliminate
discrimination in the workforce that allows employers to pay women a
fraction of what they pay men for the same job.  During this economic
crisis, workers are clinging to every dollar in their paycheck.  So now,
more than ever, it's important that women have the ability to fight
against inequality in the workforce," said Lauren Weiner of Americans
United for Change.  "We are imploring Sen. Specter to give women the
tools to do just that. By passing the Fair Pay Act, Sen. Specter will
strike down the idea that it's acceptable for women to receive less pay
for the same job.  

"But this goes beyond income.  The Fair Pay Act means women will not
have to stand for discrimination because of gender.  This is about basic
justice in and outside the workplace.  Sen. Specter needs to send that
message to working women."    

Statistically, across the nation, women make 77 cents for every dollar a
man makes; African American women earn just 63 cents for every dollar a
man makes, and Hispanic American women make 52 cents for every dollar a
man makes.  Americans United for Change, which is leading the Jobs and
Economic Recovery Campaign <http://www.jobsandeconomicrecovery.com/er>
to pass President Elect Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan,
has supported passage of the House version of the bill, the Lilly
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and ran ads in support of the legislation
<http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/blog/entries/new_radio_ad_quest
ions_ensign_porter_votes_against_fair_pay_act/>  during the 110th
Congress. 

 

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