From Jobs With Justice – Today, the New York Wage Board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast food employees to $15 an hour. The board said this increase should be implemented by 2018 in New York City and by…
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Jeb Bush says preventing unpaid overtime abuses will hurt workers. What planet is this guy from?
By Hunter – I find Jeb Bush’s consistent wrongness on basic economic and labor issues baffling. Not that he is so often wrong, but that he seems to put so much work into it. Jeb Bush has created a flap…
Fair Trade Vital For America’s Future Prosperity
By The PA. AFL-CIO – Tom Conway, Vice President of the United Steelworkers International Union offers insights from labor negotiations in metals, rubber, paper, oil, chemicals and other industries at the Battle of Homestead Foundation’s Bernard Kleiman Lecture Pittsburgh, PA:…
Failed Sysco/US Foods Merger Puts Staples/Office Depot Deal In ‘Serious Jeopardy,’ Says American Postal Workers Union
By The American Postal Worker’s Union – WASHINGTON – The collapse of a planned merger between Sysco and US Foods puts a similar merger of office-supply giants Staples and Office Depot in serious jeopardy, says the American Postal Workers Union…
Why Electing Good Judges Is Vital To Protecting Workers On The Job
By The PA. AFL-CIO – What started as an ordinary work day at a sewage treatment plant, quickly went wrong. Franklin Pound, who usually worked in the concrete pit at the Sewickley Borough facility was installing a pipeline a short…
