The D.C. City Council voted to increase the minimum wage to $11.50/hour and guarantee paid sick days to tipped workers!
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Increased class sizes. School closings. Staff layoffs. Cuts in extracurricular activities. The collateral damage from the ongoing attacks and defunding of public education is mounting, and the need to champion great public schools is stronger than ever. Today, Jobs With Justice coalitions across the country will join with parents, students,… Read More»
The vast majority of our country is caught on the wrong end of increasing income inequality, struggling to do better than the generation before them. We believe in an economy that works for all – we all do better when we all do better. Unfortunately, America is facing an income… Read More»
McDonald's pays such low wages that taxpayers end up footing the bill.
Get the facts: http://bit.ly/McTaxes
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On Thursday, in 100 different cities around the country, fast-food workers across the country are walking off the job to speak out against unsustainable, poverty-level wages paid to workers in the restaurant industry. These men and women work for our nation’s most profitable food chains and still aren’t able to… Read More»
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Today, California Governor Jerry Brown was joined by a group of domestic workers as he signed the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in his office. It’s worth celebrating all of the workers and supporters who made this incredible victory possible. The bill is the result of a seven-year organizing… Read More»
Fast food strikers in Atlanta were spontaneously joined by Representative John Lewis
August 29, 2013 was truly a beautiful and historic day as fast food workers took the ‘march for freedom and jobs’ to fast food corporate employers in some 58 cities demanding respect and freedom from poverty wages. Specifically, the workers are demanding $15 per hour and the right to form… Read More»
Guest post by Jack Marco You are in a unique position to move the U.S. economy forward in ways you may not appreciate. Economic growth has been anemic. Corporate profits have soared as a result of cost cutting and technology. But profit growth seems to be stalling, and many of… Read More»
Thousands of DC residents have signed a petition urging Mayor Gray to pass the LRAA
Last month, the D.C. Council voted in favor of the Large Retailer Accountability Act of 2013 (LRAA), which calls for large retailers operating stores of 75,000 square feet or more, and whose parent company generates more than $1 billion in revenues annually, to provide workers a “living wage” of $12.50… Read More»