Please take a moment to read this message regarding the Salvation Army Family Store in Somerset Pennsylvania.
This store brings in anywhere from $3,000 – $9,000 a day. The store is open 6 days a week. Only about 4-6 employees work there a day. Everything sold at the store, furniture, appliances, name brand clothing, is donated. It is 100% profit.
Their workers, who even worked throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic as Essential Workers, get paid only $7.25 an hour. This is one of, if not the lowest paying Employers in the area, and is the lowest paying employer in the Plaza it is a part of.
Actually, please allow me to correct myself.
In February the workers were given a congratulatory $0.25 cent raise, the “biggest raise they've given in years.”
A 3% raise to combat the 7% inflation.
What is even worse is the fact that is only $0.25 cents more than the Federal Minimum Wage which has not been raised in Thirteen Years.
Sad Fact: This is the longest the Federal Minimum Wage has gone without being raised since FDR signed the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
Furthermore, the store is not managed properly. Cashiers are not given change or small bills. They have to exchange them with customers, ive seen customers go next door to the Tractor Supply to try and get small bills.
Almost daily workers are still in the store finishing up 20-40 minutes after clocking out.
If you would like to help make a change, please take a few seconds and sign my petition, and share it if you would like. Thank You.
https://www.change.org/p/raise-wage-of-salvation-army-workers