‘Fight for 15’ protest shuts down McDonald’s HQ
The corporate office of McDonald’s in Oak Brook, Illinois was closed after thousands of workers and union activists marched on...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 22, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
The corporate office of McDonald’s in Oak Brook, Illinois was closed after thousands of workers and union activists marched on...
Los Angeles on Tuesday became the biggest U.S. city to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour. Following a...
McDonald’s workers will gatecrash the burger company’s shareholder meeting later this month with “the biggest-ever protest” demanding an end to...
Nearly 38 million Americans — or one in four workers– would get a raise under a bill introduced this week...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 26, 2015 · Last modified November 16, 2015
SEATAC, Washington — In late 2013, voters in this airport town outside Seattle narrowly approved a groundbreaking measure setting a...
President Obama has outsmarted Congressional Republican obstructionists with a planned executive action that will raise the wages of millions of...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 17, 2015 · Last modified November 17, 2015
Hotels are making a killing. Occupancy rates are exceeding pre-recession highs, and are expected to reach record levels in 2016....
The Fight for $15 campaign to win higher pay and a union for fast-food workers is expanding to represent a...
The burgeoning battle between fast-food workers and their employers over low wages and benefits was ratcheted up a notch this...
When thousands of low-wage workers across the country protest low pay on Wednesday, they won’t only be fighting for the...
Activist investors became targets themselves Monday when protesters briefly took over a conference focused on how to shake up companies....
The City of Quartz is a city of contrasts, with some of the world’s richest and poorest neighborhoods existing side...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 3, 2015 · Last modified November 17, 2015
On Wednesday, McDonald’s — which has been facing demonstrations denouncing its low wages — announced that it would give workers...
Sen. Patty Murray, ranking member of the Senate’s labor committee, has been reaching out to her Democratic colleagues to rally...
A network of Republican lawmakers and their rightwing corporate funders are battling behind closed doors to block minimum wage increases...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) unveiled several new proposals, including a call to raise the minimum wage to $11.50...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 3, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
For the past year, I’ve worked at a Burger King in Tampa, Florida, making $9 an hour. Taxes are taken...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 2, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
On January 1, 20 states will raise their minimum wages, while one — New York — will increase its wage...
by onepercenttakers · Published December 29, 2014 · Last modified November 11, 2015
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon struck down a rule change issued by the Department of Labor that would...
by onepercenttakers · Published December 28, 2014 · Last modified November 21, 2015
Minimum wage increases will prompt Walmart Stores Inc to adjust base salaries at 1,434 stores, impacting about a third of...
For the third Black Friday running, America’s largest retailer is expected to face labor protests at locations across the country....
by onepercenttakers · Published November 18, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
CHICAGO, Nov 14 (Reuters) – A group of Walmart employees pushing for higher wages said on Friday they were planning...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 10, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
The Democrats were brutalized at the polls Tuesday, but progressives can at least take some consolation in some notable strides...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 6, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
Measures aimed at raising the minimum wage passed overwhelmingly in the five states where they appeared on Tuesday’s ballot. The...
Silly season is almost over. But in these waning days before the November 4 election, Republicans are getting in their...
Imagine a world where fast food workers can pay their rent and utility bills, plus buy their children food and...
SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA—In downtown Sioux Falls, The Banquet provides community members free warm meals six days a week. These...
Gov. Scott Walker finds himself in a startling dead heat with Democratic candidate Mary Burke, business executive and former state...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 26, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
Reasonable people may differ on the precise definition of a living wage. But the consensus is that $7.25 an hour...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 22, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
In a gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) was asked whether he supports the concept of a...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 21, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
The first national campaigns of the Republican Party, more than 150 years ago, linked economic progress with democratic participation, urging...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 18, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Raising the federal minimum wage would save the government billions and have sweeping benefits for low-income families, according to a...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 5, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
A ProPublica review of U.S. Department of Labor investigations shows that oil and gas workers – men and women often...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 29, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
On Wednesday morning, Wisconsin Jobs Now, Wisconsin Working Families, and a group of low-wage workers in the state submitted 100...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 24, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The fast food industry is hoping that a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill can blunt the momentum that fast...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 21, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
For Democrats, 2014 was supposed to be the year of the minimum wage. President Obama used his State of the...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 12, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
MADISON — The chant “come on out, we’ve got your back!” echoed through the air at Taco Bell as peaceful...
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by onepercenttakers · Published September 7, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
At a Koch Brothers-hosted secret strategy conference of right-wing millionaire and billionaire political activists in June, Senate Minority Leader Mitch...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 4, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
I work for McDonald’s and I make $21 an hour. No, that isn’t a typo. It’s really my salary. You...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 4, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
(Reuters) – U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and...
Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez’s home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S....
An extraordinary shift in wages paid to American workers took place from 2000 to 2012, a change that holds powerful...
(CNN) — Raising the minimum wage continues to be a top Democratic economic priority, insisting that higher pay is critical...
In a ruling being hailed by union groups and wage rights advocates, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found Tuesday...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says the minimum wage, like Trix, is for kids. Speaking in San Francisco over the weekend,...
Can you name the worst job you’ve ever had? For Cliff Martin, that’s not an easy question. All three of...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.