Labor – Page 315 – People's World

To raise wages in Panama, dockers join a U.S. union

April 6, 2015 By David Bacon

In Panama they call longshore pay "hunger wages." Workers' families live below the government's own poverty line, and some families literally go hungry.

McDonald’s wage announcement draws the ire of low-wage workers

April 3, 2015 By Al Neal

"Millions of families working for poverty wages will continue to struggle until McDonald's pays a living wage."

Call for $15 and a union rings through Ebeneezer Baptist Church

April 2, 2015 By LaBarre Blackman

Fast food servers, homecare and airport workers, and students gave witness to the low pay facing them in today's increasingly service-centered economy.

Workers call McDonald’s hourly wage raise a PR gimmick

April 2, 2015 By John Wojcik

"It's a PR stunt, and that stunt isn't going to pay my gas bill this month, or get my landlord off my back."

Labor returns to its roots: Bringing immigrants out of the shadows

April 2, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

A "key piece of the raising wages agenda is a workable pathway to citizenship" for undocumented workers.