| Re "City of Calgary urged to adopt living wage," by Amy Steele, News, Jan 11-17, 2007.
It is about time that the city of Calgary adopts an ethical procurement policy whereby the suppliers are obliged to pay a living wage to their employees. I have lived in this city for almost 40 years and have seen the prosperity coming to the middle class and yet seen the homelessness grow. A recent report on high executive wages recounts that they can make the entire yearly wage of a bottom employee by 10:30 a.m. on a single day. This is outrageous as can be further substantiated by the pay differential between the high- and low-paid employee in America. Average pay multiple for a high-paid executive is now 400 times that of the low-paid employee. If we want to be considered as civilized we must increase the minimum wage to a living wage tied to the inflation rate and not the current increases every three or four years.
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