June 2, 2017
On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law new rules bringing greater security and stability for men and women working in the fast-food industry. In recent decades, profitable fast-food giants and retail outlets grant the women and men who make them so successful too few hours… Read More»
Tags: 32BJ, Bill DeBlasio, fair scheduling, Fast Food Forward, Fight for 15, Full Time Hours, Hector Figueroa, just hours, New York City, on-call schedules, RWDSU, SEIU
November 23, 2016
Eager to work, but unable to secure consistent work is the conundrum facing too many people today. Across the country, people are ready, willing and able to work full time so they can put food on the table, and live a good life. Unfortunately, many of them work for employers… Read More»
Tags: fair scheduling, just hours, Opportunity to work, Part time work, Retail Workers Bill of Rights, San Francisco, San Jose, seattle
April 5, 2016
We already knew that chambers of commerce, at the national, state and local levels, lobby against the interests of working Americans. Yesterday we learned that these business groups might be lobbying against their own members’ interests too. In a leaked webinar, a member of conservative pollster Frank Luntz’s firm reviews… Read More»
Tags: Chamber of Commerce, fair scheduling, Frank Luntz, just hours, lobbyists, on-call shifts, predictive scheduling, Retail Workers Bill of Rights
February 18, 2016
On February 12, 750 Jobs With Justice leaders, activists and allies converged on Washington, D.C., for the 2016 Jobs With Justice National Conference. Conference attendees, who came from across the country and as far as Bangladesh, Cambodia, France, India and Indonesia, spent two days learning from each other, strategizing for… Read More»
Tags: Black Lives Matter, fair scheduling, Living wages, national conference, Protest, Secretary of Labor, twitter