Minimum Wage
Want a better world? Get on board with the new labor movement
May 21, 2014Deep-going social change in a progressive, left and socialist direction doesn't just "happen." It requires, first of all, real, active, and politically far-seeing social movements on the ground.
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America’s top hospital gets failing grade in treatment of its workers
May 16, 2014Hospital workers were on the march in the pouring rain earlier this month at John Hopkins Hospital saying: "America's Number One Hospital - Keeping Workers in Poverty."
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Trumka: Minimum wage opponents ‘delusional’ if they think they’ve won
May 2, 2014AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka condemned the continued right-wing obstruction preventing millions of working families from getting a much-needed boost in income.
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Senate GOP defeats minimum wage hike
May 1, 2014The Senate tried to raise the nation's minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2016. But its Democratic sponsors needed 60 votes to start debate, and got six fewer than that.
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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, unique even among corporate crooks
April 22, 2014Musk is only the most extreme example of the overcompensated corporate crook running U.S. companies on the AFL-CIO's latest Executive Paywatch list.
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