Many Hoosier voters dont know that Indianas minimum wage is really $2.13 per hour. That is what waiters and waitresses make at many restaurants in Indiana. That is how little I made as a waiter in 1996.<\/p>\n
Tipped restaurant workers depend on tips. But when restaurants use the tipped workers to take and package orders for carry out or delivery, the servers make no tips. A waitress I know complained to me that her employer made her take and package 87 to-go orders in one shift. She made no tips. She was paid only $2.13 per hour. She could not live on that. So, she quit and went to a different restaurant to wait tables and get tips.<\/p>\n
Indiana law outlaws slavery. But $2.13 per hour amounts to slave wages. It is time to help those who are being abused and mistreated by Indianas $2.13 per hour minimum wage. Tell the Legislature and the governor to GIVE THEM A RAISE.<\/p>\n
Woodrow Wilcox, Dyer<\/p>\n
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