Background: Attacks on joint-employer standards are attacks on low-wage workers and their ability to organize. Wealthy CEOs, their lobbyists, and politicians on the right have attacked joint-employer standards for decades. During the 1980s, a conservative National Labor Relations Board whittled the definition of joint-employer status to benefit corporations and dissolve… Read More»
House Republicans will lose their majority in a little more than three weeks and have decided to hold a hearing on whether to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. It seems like a strange time for them to turn their attention to the federal minimum wage. After all,… Read More»
With voters overwhelmingly supporting an increase in the federal minimum wage and midterm elections looming, this is our moment to put pressure on Congress. Tell your representative to sign the discharge petition now and force a vote on the Fair Minimum Wage Act!