‘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...
Tagged: minimum wage
Los Angeles Votes To Raise Minimum Wage To $15
Los Angeles on Tuesday became the biggest U.S. city to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour. Following a...
Fight for $15 swells into largest protest by low-wage workers in US history
McDonald’s workers will gatecrash the burger company’s shareholder meeting later this month with “the biggest-ever protest” demanding an end to...
Democratic bill aims to hike U.S. minimum wage to $12
Nearly 38 million Americans — or one in four workers– would get a raise under a bill introduced this week...
How Raising The Minimum Wage To $15 Changed These Workers’ Lives
SEATAC, Washington — In late 2013, voters in this airport town outside Seattle narrowly approved a groundbreaking measure setting a...
Obama Outsmarts Republicans With Planned Executive Action To Raise Wages For Millions
President Obama has outsmarted Congressional Republican obstructionists with a planned executive action that will raise the wages of millions of...
Hotel Industry Calls Wage Hikes For Workers ‘Extreme’ While Its CEOs Rake in Millions
Hotels are making a killing. Occupancy rates are exceeding pre-recession highs, and are expected to reach record levels in 2016....
Protests For $15 Minimum Wage Are Heating Up
The Fight for $15 campaign to win higher pay and a union for fast-food workers is expanding to represent a...
McDonald’s advises employee to apply for food stamps
The burgeoning battle between fast-food workers and their employers over low wages and benefits was ratcheted up a notch this...
Low Wages Cost U.S. Taxpayers $153 Billion A Year
When thousands of low-wage workers across the country protest low pay on Wednesday, they won’t only be fighting for the...
Protesters Disrupt Activist Investor Summit
Activist investors became targets themselves Monday when protesters briefly took over a conference focused on how to shake up companies....
A Higher Minimum Wage Could Pump $5.9 Billion Into LA’s Economy
The City of Quartz is a city of contrasts, with some of the world’s richest and poorest neighborhoods existing side...
Paul Krugman: Power and Paychecks
On Wednesday, McDonald’s — which has been facing demonstrations denouncing its low wages — announced that it would give workers...
Senate Democrats Consider Raising Their Minimum Wage Proposal To $12
Sen. Patty Murray, ranking member of the Senate’s labor committee, has been reaching out to her Democratic colleagues to rally...
Powerful right wing lobby plots to stop minimum wage hikes
A network of Republican lawmakers and their rightwing corporate funders are battling behind closed doors to block minimum wage increases...
Governor Cuomo Calls For Substantial Minimum Wage Hike
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) unveiled several new proposals, including a call to raise the minimum wage to $11.50...
More lethal than the Whopper: How Burger King pleases the 1 percent, screws its workers
For the past year, I’ve worked at a Burger King in Tampa, Florida, making $9 an hour. Taxes are taken...
Millions Of Workers Will Get A Raise On New Years Day
On January 1, 20 states will raise their minimum wages, while one — New York — will increase its wage...
Judge Takes Away Minimum Wage Protections From Home Care Workers
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon struck down a rule change issued by the Department of Labor that would...
Minimum wage hike coming at more than 1,400 Walmart stores
Minimum wage increases will prompt Walmart Stores Inc to adjust base salaries at 1,434 stores, impacting about a third of...
Walmart workers plan Black Friday strike
For the third Black Friday running, America’s largest retailer is expected to face labor protests at locations across the country....
Walmart Workers Plan Black Friday Protests Over Wages
CHICAGO, Nov 14 (Reuters) – A group of Walmart employees pushing for higher wages said on Friday they were planning...
San Francisco Raises Its Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour
The Democrats were brutalized at the polls Tuesday, but progressives can at least take some consolation in some notable strides...
Minimum Wage Measures Pass Overwhelmingly, Even in Red States
Measures aimed at raising the minimum wage passed overwhelmingly in the five states where they appeared on Tuesday’s ballot. The...
Republicans Smear Mary Burke, Sneer at Minimum Wage
Silly season is almost over. But in these waning days before the November 4 election, Republicans are getting in their...
Denmark’s McDonald’s Workers Aren’t Demanding $15 an Hour—Because They’re Already Making $20
Imagine a world where fast food workers can pay their rent and utility bills, plus buy their children food and...
South Dakota’s Minimum Wage Workers Are Eating At Soup Kitchens — But They Could Get A Raise Soon
SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA—In downtown Sioux Falls, The Banquet provides community members free warm meals six days a week. These...
With Election in a Dead Heat, Union-Busting Gov. Scott Walker Attacks the Unemployed
Gov. Scott Walker finds himself in a startling dead heat with Democratic candidate Mary Burke, business executive and former state...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Thinks $7.25 Is a Living Wage
Reasonable people may differ on the precise definition of a living wage. But the consensus is that $7.25 an hour...
Governor: I Don’t Know What The Minimum Wage Should Be Because ‘The Private Sector Decides Wages’
In a gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) was asked whether he supports the concept of a...
Eighty percent of Americans want to hike wages, but powerful Republicans keep saying “no”
The first national campaigns of the Republican Party, more than 150 years ago, linked economic progress with democratic participation, urging...
$10.10 Minimum Wage Would Save The U.S. Government $7.6 Billion A Year
Raising the federal minimum wage would save the government billions and have sweeping benefits for low-income families, according to a...
For Oil and Gas Companies, Rigging Seems to Involve Wages, Too
A ProPublica review of U.S. Department of Labor investigations shows that oil and gas workers – men and women often...
Low-Wage Workers Confront Scott Walker, Accuse Wisconsin Of Breaking The Law
On Wednesday morning, Wisconsin Jobs Now, Wisconsin Working Families, and a group of low-wage workers in the state submitted 100...
Fast Food Franchise Owners Seek to Stop Campaign for Labor Rights
The fast food industry is hoping that a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill can blunt the momentum that fast...
Even in Palin Country, Raising the Minimum Wage Is Wildly Popular
For Democrats, 2014 was supposed to be the year of the minimum wage. President Obama used his State of the...
Fight for 15 Gets into the Ring with Taco Bell
MADISON — The chant “come on out, we’ve got your back!” echoed through the air at Taco Bell as peaceful...
McConnell Promises Billionaire Donors He Won’t Waste Time On ‘Gosh Darn’ Minimum Wage Increases
At a Koch Brothers-hosted secret strategy conference of right-wing millionaire and billionaire political activists in June, Senate Minority Leader Mitch...
I’m making $21 an hour at McDonald’s. Why aren’t you?
I work for McDonald’s and I make $21 an hour. No, that isn’t a typo. It’s really my salary. You...
U.S. fast-food workers arrested in protests for wage hike
(Reuters) – U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and...
Fast Food Worker To US Labor Secretary: ‘Either I Feed Myself Or I Feed My Son’
Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez’s home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S....
Minimum wage laws aren’t just for workers with lowest wages
An extraordinary shift in wages paid to American workers took place from 2000 to 2012, a change that holds powerful...
This Congressman Tried to Live on the Minimum Wage
(CNN) — Raising the minimum wage continues to be a top Democratic economic priority, insisting that higher pay is critical...
Labor Board Delivers Victory for Low-Wage McDonald’s Workers
In a ruling being hailed by union groups and wage rights advocates, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found Tuesday...
Rand Paul Flubs the Facts on the Minimum Wage
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says the minimum wage, like Trix, is for kids. Speaking in San Francisco over the weekend,...
The Bad Boss Tax: When Workers at Walmart Need Food Stamps to Survive, Should Walmart be Taxed Accordingly?
Can you name the worst job you’ve ever had? For Cliff Martin, that’s not an easy question. All three of...
