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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Republicans Want to Take Away Your Weekend: In Wisconsin, a new bill is threatening to kill workers’ one day of rest.
As Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the so-called “right to work” bill on March 9, making Wisconsin the twenty-fifth right-to-work...
Obama Annihilates Scott Walker After Governor Signs Wisconsin Right To Exploit Law
President Obama released a fiery statement that called out Gov. Scott Walker for weakening the middle-class and after he signed...
Wisconsin Republicans Pass Right-To-Exploit Bill, Walker Plans To Sign
Following a heated, all-night debate between lawmakers in Madison, the Wisconsin state assembly passed right-to-work legislation on Friday morning, sending...
The State Where Even Republicans Have a Problem With Busting Unions
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has declared war on workers and their unions—and, by extension, on fair wages and the prospects...
Wisconsin’s Forty Year War On Unions
Forty years ago the owners of Milwaukee’s meat packing plants launched a war on unions. Milwaukee’s working class is still...
The Wealthy Get Paid Sick Days. The Poor Don’t.
President Obama has proposed a right to paid sick leave for all workers in this country. Family economic security is...
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...
Elizabeth Warren Says Economy Is ‘Rigged’ Against Workers
WASHINGTON — With a celebrity assist from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the AFL-CIO union federation hosted what it billed as...
‘Right to Work’ Benefits CEOs, Not Workers
Earlier this month, in the sparsely populated Kentucky county that’s home to Bowling Green, officials voted to convert the place...
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...
Federal labor board decisions are a bonanza for unions
The federal agency in charge of adjudicating labor disputes has released not one but several major decisions benefiting labor unions...
Labor board attorney backs up claims McDonald’s violated labor rights
Fast-food chain McDonald’s illegally retaliated against workers who participated in union organizing activities, the general counsel for the National Labor...
Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union Busting Bill in Wisconsin
Just weeks after Wisconsin’s controversial Governor Scott Walker was elected to a second term, a group with ties to the...
The Next Frontier for Workers’ Rights
In late November, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights — the first law...
Coal industry’s go-to law firm withheld evidence of black lung, at expense of sick miners
BECKLEY, W.Va. — The stately, wood-paneled chamber in the federal building here unsettled Gary Fox and his wife, Mary. Fox...
Walmart Threatened Workers For Trying To Organize, Judge Rules
(Reuters) – An administrative law judge found Walmart threatened employees trying to organize workers at two stores in California, in...
Fast food workers plan nationwide strike for December 4
Fast food workers in at least 150 cities nationwide will walk off the job on Dec. 4, demanding an industry-wide...
Kmart Workers Say They Risk Being Fired If They Don’t Come In On Thanksgiving
While Kmart has claimed that stores try to staff shifts on Thanksgiving Day, which will begin before 6 a.m., with...
Postal Workers Push Back Against Privatization and Post Office Closures
Union workers at the U.S. Postal Service staged one of their largest national demonstrations to date November 14, protesting fresh...
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...
‘Poster Boy for Malevolent Big Business’ Indicted Over Fatal Coal Mine Disaster
Don Blankenship, the former CEO of coal giant Massey Energy, faces up to 31 years in prison after a federal...
Walmart’s Inhumane Policies for Pregnant Workers
In February, Bene’t Holmes asked her manager at a Chicago Walmart to put her on lighter duty. She was four...
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...
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...
Bernie Sanders: U.S. Headed Toward Becoming Third World Country
BURLINGTON, Vt. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said a new report that paychecks are shrinking and half of all...
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...
Why It’s Time to Update Overtime Pay Rules
Americans are working longer hours and are more productive—yet wages are largely flat. Indeed, the median worker saw a real...
“The Show Must Go On”: Guitar Center Workers Push for First Contracts
Guitar Center store workers are fighting for fair wages and improved conditions at stores around the country. The company has...
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...
Wells Fargo Employee Calls Out CEO’s Pay, Requests Company-Wide Raise In Brave Email
When most employees want a raise, they schedule a meeting with their supervisor or reach out to human resources. A...
New Orleans Union Membership Set to Double After Hotel and Casino Workers Win
The number of union members in New Orleans’s tourism industry is set to double. The hospitality and gaming union Unite...
Bill aims to stop coal companies from denying benefits to miners with black lung
Two coal-state senators plan to introduce sweeping legislation to reform the federal program meant to provide benefits to miners suffering...
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...
The Biggest Robbers In America Are Employers
The amount of money employers had to pay because they were found guilty of wage theft is nearly three times...
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...
American Airlines, US Airways Workers Vote Overwhelmingly To Join Union
Thousands of service agents at American Airlines unionized with their new colleagues at U.S. Airways on Tuesday, making the most...
