From here:
Hamilton’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 growing group calling for a basic wage that’s tied to what it actually costs to live here.
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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 “social inclusion” needs, such as a city recreation pass and other necessities.
Companies and agencies backing Living Wage Hamilton …….
Anglican Diocese of Niagara
There is only one problem with this: the Diocese of Niagara pays its janitors $12.50 per hour while campaigning for everyone else to pay at least $14.95 per hour; poor chaps will be deprived of their social inclusion needs – whatever that means..
Straight from the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: “From one according to his ability, to one according to his means.”
Many jurisdictions in western Canada are at some stage of implementing living wage policies:
Calgary, Edmonton, (the province of Alberta is now talking about it), New Westminster, the Fraser valley, and I’m sure several others.
Of course the rate quoted ($12.50) was from an advertised position two years ago (2013), so an assumption is being made that this remains the wage today, and that the parish involved is not abiding by the policy. It should be noted that the Ontario minimum wage in 2013 was $10.25 per hour.
The church janitor ad was from June 2013 and the living wage campaign figure is from 2014, so I think it’s fair to conclude that the diocese is being more generous with other people’s money than its own.
Or perhaps your information is outdated. Here is a current ad for a custodian position in the Diocese of Niagara. Based on it, I’d say that it is living what it preaches…at least on the living wage topic.
http://niagaraanglican.ca/hr/jobs/custodian-transfiguration-st-catharines