Millionaire Jeb Bush Decides That Americans Need To Work Longer Before They Can Retire
Slacker Alert: Jeb Bush is calling to push the retirement age to 68 or 70. That will fix you entitled...
Slacker Alert: Jeb Bush is calling to push the retirement age to 68 or 70. That will fix you entitled...
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...
President Obama has outsmarted Congressional Republican obstructionists with a planned executive action that will raise the wages of millions of...
The Fight for $15 campaign to win higher pay and a union for fast-food workers is expanding to represent a...
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...
As Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the so-called “right to work” bill on March 9, making Wisconsin the twenty-fifth right-to-work...
President Obama released a fiery statement that called out Gov. Scott Walker for weakening the middle-class and after he signed...
Following a heated, all-night debate between lawmakers in Madison, the Wisconsin state assembly passed right-to-work legislation on Friday morning, sending...
by onepercenttakers · Published February 25, 2015 · Last modified November 19, 2015
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has declared war on workers and their unions—and, by extension, on fair wages and the prospects...
Forty years ago the owners of Milwaukee’s meat packing plants launched a war on unions. Milwaukee’s working class is still...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 25, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
President Obama has proposed a right to paid sick leave for all workers in this country. Family economic security is...
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 12, 2015 · Last modified November 21, 2015
WASHINGTON — With a celebrity assist from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the AFL-CIO union federation hosted what it billed as...
Earlier this month, in the sparsely populated Kentucky county that’s home to Bowling Green, officials voted to convert the place...
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 29, 2014 · Last modified November 21, 2015
The federal agency in charge of adjudicating labor disputes has released not one but several major decisions benefiting labor unions...
Fast-food chain McDonald’s illegally retaliated against workers who participated in union organizing activities, the general counsel for the National Labor...
Just weeks after Wisconsin’s controversial Governor Scott Walker was elected to a second term, a group with ties to the...
by onepercenttakers · Published December 15, 2014 · Last modified November 22, 2015
In late November, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights — the first law...
BECKLEY, W.Va. — The stately, wood-paneled chamber in the federal building here unsettled Gary Fox and his wife, Mary. Fox...
(Reuters) – An administrative law judge found Walmart threatened employees trying to organize workers at two stores in California, in...
by onepercenttakers · Published December 2, 2014 · Last modified November 22, 2015
Fast food workers in at least 150 cities nationwide will walk off the job on Dec. 4, demanding an industry-wide...
While Kmart has claimed that stores try to staff shifts on Thanksgiving Day, which will begin before 6 a.m., with...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 19, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
Union workers at the U.S. Postal Service staged one of their largest national demonstrations to date November 14, protesting fresh...
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 16, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
Don Blankenship, the former CEO of coal giant Massey Energy, faces up to 31 years in prison after a federal...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 14, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
In February, Bene’t Holmes asked her manager at a Chicago Walmart to put her on lighter duty. She was four...
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...
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...
BURLINGTON, Vt. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said a new report that paychecks are shrinking and half of all...
Gov. Scott Walker finds himself in a startling dead heat with Democratic candidate Mary Burke, business executive and former state...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 27, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
Americans are working longer hours and are more productive—yet wages are largely flat. Indeed, the median worker saw a real...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 23, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
Guitar Center store workers are fighting for fair wages and improved conditions at stores around the country. The company has...
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 11, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
When most employees want a raise, they schedule a meeting with their supervisor or reach out to human resources. A...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 2, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The number of union members in New Orleans’s tourism industry is set to double. The hospitality and gaming union Unite...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 30, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Two coal-state senators plan to introduce sweeping legislation to reform the federal program meant to provide benefits to miners suffering...
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 26, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The amount of money employers had to pay because they were found guilty of wage theft is nearly three times...
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 18, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Thousands of service agents at American Airlines unionized with their new colleagues at U.S. Airways on Tuesday, making the most...
"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.