The fight for good jobs is the
Fight for Cincinnati's Future
Downtown Cincinnati looks prettier than ever; but reality for working families in our city is bleak. While the CEOs of Cincinnati’s Fortune 500 companies have helped themselves to higher salaries and bigger bonuses, the rest of us are working harder than ever for less in a city that is increasingly segregated by race and income.
Cincinnati currently has:
- one of the highest per capita concentrations of Fortune 500 headquarters in the nation;
- a poverty rate of 30.6%--more than twice the state poverty rate;
- and a child poverty rate of 48%--almost half of our city's children.
Cincinnatians aren't poor because they aren't working--they're poor because their jobs don't pay a living wage. Cincinnati janitors are coming together to change that. Right now, they are in the process of bargaining a new union contract to secure fair wages and affordable health care. And they are calling on the richest 1% to do their part by creating good jobs for our city.