{"id":23129,"date":"2015-06-26T23:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T03:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23129"},"modified":"2015-06-26T23:47:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T03:47:50","slug":"diocese-of-niagara-supports-living-wage-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-supports-living-wage-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara supports living wage program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news-story\/5698330-new-voices-for-living-wage-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hamilton&#8217;s business voice and a leading social service agency have joined a crusade to make the city a living wage economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamilton Chamber of Commerce and the Good Shepherd Centres signed onto the drive Friday, joining a growing group calling for a basic wage that&#8217;s tied to what it actually costs to live here.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>In Hamilton, the campaign argues a working person needs at least $14.95 an hour to purchase adequate shelter, clothing, food, transportation, child care, health insurance and &#8220;social inclusion&#8221; needs, such as a city recreation pass and other necessities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Companies and agencies backing Living Wage Hamilton &#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anglican Diocese of Niagara<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is only one problem with this: the Diocese of Niagara <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allstarjobs.ca\/index.php?post_id=217426&amp;show_emp=34056\" target=\"_blank\">pays its janitors<\/a> $12.50 per hour while campaigning for everyone else to pay at least $14.95 per hour; poor chaps will be deprived of their <em>social inclusion needs<\/em> &#8211; whatever that means..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Hamilton&#8217;s business voice and a leading social service agency have joined a crusade to make the city a living wage economy. The Hamilton Chamber of Commerce and the Good Shepherd Centres signed onto the drive Friday, joining a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-supports-living-wage-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111,1849],"class_list":["post-23129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-living-wage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}