There’s a Class War Going On and the Poor Are Getting Their Butts Kicked
Although they say they’re concerned about inequality, economic policymakers continue to pummel low-income families and the jobless, and that’s bad...
Category: Workers
Half A Million People With College Degrees Are Working For Minimum Wage
Almost half a million college graduates are working minimum-wage jobs, according to new government statistics.
Hamburgled: Nine Out Of Ten Fast Food Workers Have Experienced Wage Theft
A new poll finds that 89 percent of fast food workers nationwide say they experience wage theft.
Senate Republicans Unanimously Block Equal Pay Bill
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans unanimously voted against advancing the Paycheck Fairness Act. Forty-three voted against invoking cloture, joined by Independent...
Retirees Lose Last Shield Against Pension Cuts As Judge Approves Detroit’s Payoff To Banks
After rejecting two previous proposals for being too generous to banks, on Friday a federal judge approved Detroit’s plan to...
Wealth Inequality Is Now As Bad As It Was During The 1920s
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
The Next Domino’s To Fall: Pizza Chain Will Pay A Half-Million Dollars Over Stolen Wages
Drivers and pizza cooks will share a $448,000 payout from 23 Domino’s Pizza franchise owners around New York state under...
The Burger Chain That Pays $10 An Hour With Benefits
Shake Shack, a burger chain with locations in Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. as well as international...
Lawmakers Take the ‘Minimum Wage Challenge’ to Eat Off a Reduced Budget for a Week
Rashida Tlaib is a state representative in Michigan. But on Wednesday when she checked out at her grocery store, she...
McDonald’s Systematically Steals Worker Wages, Lawsuits Claim
Workers in California, Michigan and New York this week filed six new lawsuits against McDonald’s claiming they were systematically shorted...
How Tennessee Politicians Killed Volkswagen Unionization
Right-wing groups may have successfully defeated a unionization bid at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn. manufacturing plant, but it wasn’t a clean...
CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law
Former Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson, 54, of J.C. Penney Co. got a compensation package worth 1,795 times the average...
Fast Food CEO: Low-Paid Managers Prefer ‘Stature’ to Overtime Pay
So-called fast food “managers” who do much of the same work as non-managerial workers, but without being eligible for overtime...
