Welcome

The purpose of The Worldwide Minimum Wage Project^® is to educate the public about the necessity of requiring that minimum wage laws be established in international trade agreements.

For two decades, a number of people, across the political spectrum, have been saying that the U.S. government should use international trade agreements to improve working conditions in other countries, for a variety of reasons. This project is to test the theory that this generalized lack of focus is why little or no progress has been made on a wide number of work related issues. Therefore, The Worldwide Minimum Wage Project is devoted to a very large, but very narrowly focused concept. That is, that a minimum wage should be required by international trade agreements, for the benefit of American workers. We believe that concentrating on this one narrow issue will prove to be the first brick in tearing down a much larger wall. We believe that by reaching a large number of voters, we will ultimately have an impact on U.S. government policy, and that there is a lot of entrenched resistance to overcome.

We hope you will read Our Perspective page.

If you support the idea of a worldwide minimum wage, then the best thing you can do is spread the word.

• Tell your elected representatives.
• Tell your friends and family.
• Tell your local street protesters.
• Tell your chamber of commerce and union organizers.
• Tell your local small business manufacturers, who can't compete with cheap foreign labor.

And if you would like to tell anyone about this website, we would appreciate it.

Send Us Your Feedback

If you would like to support this website, what we really need is your feedback. Use our Contact Us page to tell us about news stories, that our readers would be interested in, for our News page. And we would like to hear your comments for our futhered education, and to find out where in the world our readers are located. We take all comments under advisement, where you think we're right, where you think we're wrong, what we should do differently, what we should do next, and let us know of any other scholars or activists who might argue for or against a worldwide minimum wage.

Funding

Note, we have been funding this project entirely by ourselves for more than a decade. But obviously progress on this issue has been much slower than what we would have liked. So in mid-2016 we began soliciting contributions from others, to try and bring this concept to fruition much sooner.

We are glad that there are many other people working on issues of economic stability and social justice. The Worldwide Minimum Wage Project is just what we have picked out for us to do.