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Living Wage
Big Companies Can Afford to Pay Their Workers $15 an Hour
Elizabeth Schulte reports on the latest developments in the struggle for a $15 an hour minimum wage, as an April 15 national day of action approaches.
Fast-Food Workers: Thanks for the Raise, McDonald’s, but We Said $15 an Hour, Not $10
McDonald's Corporation offered a pay increase next July to workers in the restaurants it owns in the United States.
The Fight of Their Lives: Can Adjuncts Finally Win a Living Wage?
The next big fight for decent labor protections is heating up in academia.
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Mayor de Blasio’s “Living Wage” Increase Is Too Little for Too Few
Increasing the living wage is a good start, but all of New York's minimum wage workers deserve a raise.
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Four-Day Workweeks: Change for the Better?
Reducing worktimes with no reduction in pay is a perfectly viable economic development strategy.
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When Four Jobs Aren’t Enough: Why We Need a Living Wage
No person should die because they were too exhausted to leave the car after working multiple shifts just to make ends meet.
Fast-Food Workers Challenge Stereotypes, Globalize Question of Fairness
In what's become an international movement, fast-food workers are challenging customers to ‘think outside of the self,’ rather than ‘think outside the bun,’ at their pay and working conditions.
Shouldn’t We Pay Nannies and People Who Care for Our Parents a Living Wage?
A recent US Supreme Court ruling weakening the unions of state-funded workers limits the ability of many domestic workers who care for our most vulnerable to win higher pay, …
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“People Make Up Our City”: Why Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Is a Sign of Things to Come
Seattle's new minimum wage of $15 an hour - the highest in the nation - is the latest example of grassroots efforts to establish living wages at the local …
Leveling the Playing Field for Worker Cooperatives
Municipal and state governments as well as NGOs that support small or independent businesses are finally beginning to address what changes they need to make to support the creation …