low wage workers – Page 2

Low-wage workers, progressive Dems push minimum wage hike

March 9, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

Half of the 26 million full-time minimum-wage workers and two-thirds of all minimum-wage workers including part-timers, are female, 11 million are parents and 4.5 million of them are single parents.

Emeryville workers celebrate Lunar New Year on the picket line

February 22, 2018 By Marilyn Bechtel

“I know we’re going to win this. It may take a little longer, but we’re never going to give up!”

Hundreds of thousands of workers walk out for $15 and a union

December 1, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg

From Washington to Los Angeles to Chicago, from Maine to Minnesota to Phoenix, low-wage workers – including fast food workers, airport workers, adjunct professors, home health care workers and for the first time, Uber drivers –...

Stunning theatre about super-exploited restaurant workers

April 19, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon

Molina keeps the rapid-fire, crackerjack dialogue calibrated to his split-second timing, recreating the hustle of a busy restaurant that diners never imagine.

The “Right-to-Work” movement’s attack on women workers

January 19, 2016 By Sheila Bapat

If strong public sector union jobs are eroded as a result of the right-to-work movement's attack, this will be an added setback for women's economic status in the U.S.