Op-Ed By Joseph Chevalier
Columbia Daily Tribune, October 26, 2024
My favorite coffee mug is a gift from my wife, Kelsey. It has an image of a typewriter and the words “write your own story.”
We wrote our own story when we opened Yellow Dog Bookshop in 2013. From the beginning, we wanted our shop to be a welcoming place that could brighten people’s lives and encourage them to write their own story.
We all have a great opportunity now to help Missourians write their own stories by voting Yes on Proposition A.
By raising the minimum wage, it will help people make a living and have a life that is not a daily struggle to put food on the table and keep a roof overhead. By assuring paid sick time, it will make our workplaces and our communities safer and healthier.
Yellow Dog is a Mom and Pop bookshop. Mom and Pops thrive when they are connected to community.
We can’t compete with big box stores and big online retailers by shortchanging our employees. We compete by providing a better customer experience ...
If a small bookstore like ours can plan ahead for the minimum wage increases and paid sick time provisions in Proposition A, so can other businesses.
Proposition A has strong business support across our state. Yellow Dog Bookshop has joined with more than 500 businesses in the Missouri Business for a Healthy Economy Coalition. That includes other Columbia businesses like Pasta La Fata, Main Squeeze, Ozark Mountain Biscuit Co., and Makes Scents, to name a few.
We know that Proposition A will strengthen Missouri’s workforce, businesses and communities, and lead to a healthier Missouri economy. Let’s write this story together!
Joseph Chevalier is the owner of Yellow Dog Bookshop in Columbia and a member of Missouri Business for a Healthy Economy.
Copyright 2024 Joseph Chevalier