I am glad that the Fight for $15 in fast food has forced the hand on Andrew Cuomo to raise the wages of those workers to $15 by 2021. That's a win. But it's totally ridiculous that it is industry-based as opposed to a general...
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Labor in Bangladesh is not cheap enough for the apparel industry. Time to move to Myanmar, so long as the government--a group of military leaders not precisely known for taking.
Hillary Clinton won't come out and support a national $15 minimum wage. That's too bad, but probably expected. However, this is the sort of issue where we need to put.
Above: The Chipotle CEO business model This is a good discussion on the bogus connection between higher minimum wages and higher prices. The real issue leading to higher prices are CEO salaries and corporate profit margins, not a slightly higher minimum wage. Chipotle is just...
Big victory for home health care workers in Massachusetts. The workers and their union, SEIU, came to an agreement with the state government to raise their minimum wage to $15.
Really glad to see California move toward a $13 hour minimum wage tied to inflation. It's not nearly high enough, especially for a state as expensive as California. The minimum.
With leadership like this, it's hard to believe the American labor movement is in decline: Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide minimum wage increase approved last week by the Los Angeles City Council, are advocating last-minute changes to the law...
Yesterday's bill in Los Angeles to ease in a $15 minimum wage is great. But it isn't enough to live on in Los Angeles because housing is so expensive. A.
The Los Angeles City Council voting 14-1 to increase the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour is a very big deal. Doing this city by city or state by.
Can the nation afford a $12 minimum wage in 2020? The answer is obviously yes on the face of it. But the always useful Economic Policy Institute released a report showing that the answer is in fact yes. A federal minimum wage of $12.00 in...
Massachusetts is trying to do something about its tipped minimum wage. It raised it in a recent bill all the way to $3.75 an hour by 2017. To say the.
Of course it could pay $15 an hour. It just prefers its workers living in poverty. At least it provides helpful advice on how to live on the minimum wage..