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14 Sep 2013, 8:48 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.latimes.com A bill that would boost California's minimum wage by 25% to $10 an hour won a key vote Thursday and is just one step away from the governor's desk.What Gov. [read post]
3 Sep 2013, 4:20 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com It wasn’t always about the hot dogs. [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 3:28 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com WASHINGTON — Unless Congress acts, during the last week of December an estimated 1.3 million people will lose access to an emergency program providing them with additional weeks of jobless benefits. [read post]
3 Jan 2014, 3:21 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.washingtonpost.comTo 1.3 million jobless Americans: The Republican Party wishes you a Very Unhappy New Year! [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 3:44 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments on the constitutionality of a 2011 law that all but eliminated collective bargaining for most public employees. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 5:38 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from mashable.com Mcdonalds-burger-and-friesLorenzo-headshot-sqMcDonald's had a thoughtful piece of advice for its own employees: If you want to be healthy, avoid fast food.That's what the fast-food outlet posted on its employee resource website McResource Line. [read post]
13 Dec 2014, 12:35 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com Thomas B. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 10:52 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com Most people who work for a living know that for a long time now, raises have been few and far between. [read post]
15 Dec 2013, 3:31 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.sfgate.com The two strikes that BART workers staged this year damaged the image of labor unions in California, particularly among middle-of-the-road voters, according to a new Field Poll. [read post]
1 Sep 2013, 5:38 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from blog.workingamerica.org Sure, to some people #LaborDayIs about barbecues and fashion rules. [read post]
28 Sep 2013, 5:24 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from america.aljazeera.com President Obama has also shown sympathy for the issues of low-wage workers, although the minimum wage increase he's expressly supported -- to $9 an hour -- is still less than what activists usually consider a "living wage." [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 4:23 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from time.com In a move set to reignite the debate over increasing the federal minimum wage, Walmart said Thursday it’s giving half a million of its employees a raise.Here’s what’s in store for the 500,000 employees who are paid the company’s baseline wages (which are highly contested numbers), according to a statement:What do Walmart’s raises really mean in context of the minimum wage debate? [read post]
14 Sep 2013, 8:47 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.washingtonpost.com “I think they don’t want me to actually let people know what’s really going on at Wal-Mart as an associate,” Lopez told me in an interview for the Nation following her June 21 firing. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 5:11 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.latimes.com SACRAMENTO — Low wages paid by the fast-food industry come with a high public cost for California taxpayers, academics and advocates for the working poor told state lawmakers.Workers at hamburger, pizza and other, mainly franchise, eateries are paid at near-minimum-wage levels, making them eligible for public assistance that totaled an average of $717 million a year in California from 2007 to 2011.The… [read post]
24 Nov 2013, 12:07 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com One year after the Tazreen factory fire in Bangladesh, many retailers that sold garments produced there or inside the Rana Plaza building that collapsed last spring are refusing to join an effort to compensate the families of the more than 1,200 workers who died in those disasters. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 1:15 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from mobile.nytimes.com Shiv Puri, left, training a new employee at the Bombay Sandwich Company. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 3:44 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from abcnews.go.com Riot police fired tear gas to battle thousands of stone-throwing garment workers who rampaged through two industrial towns in Bangladesh during a protest over wages Tuesday that closed at least 200 factories and left dozens of people injured, police said. [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 6:47 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com Imagine yourself in a bar where a pickpocket takes money out of your wallet and with it buys you a glass of chardonnay. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 8:16 pm
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from m.washingtonpost.com Robert Benmosche (Bloomberg News)AIG's CEO Robert Benmosche -- who came in to rescue the company after the 2008 financial crisis -- told the Wall Street Journal that the outrage over the bonuses promised to AIG's members was just as bad as when white supremacists in the American South used to lynch African Americans:The uproar over bonuses "was intended to stir public anger, to get everybody out there… [read post]
20 Oct 2013, 5:27 am
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com The government is reopening, and we didn’t default on our debt. [read post]
