Wages
Labor movement fights leadership gender gap
August 30, 2019Female-led organizations have better track records of accomplishment, with less friction to boot. In corporations, the measures are profitability and employee satisfaction. In unions, the measures are organizing and bargaining successes.
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Talks break down between Women’s Soccer and Federation over pay equity
August 15, 2019After three days, mediated talks between World Cup champion U.S. women’s national soccer team and the U.S. Soccer Federation, came to a crashing end.
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House to pass $15 minimum wage; studies debunk GOP job loss claims
July 9, 2019Research from the Economic Policy Institute suggests that Republican claims of 3.7 million lost jobs due to a rise in the minimum wage are nonsense.
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New Poor People’s Campaign demands redirecting military dollars to domestic needs
June 17, 2019The New Poor People’s Campaign opened its mass D.C. gathering with a detailed budget and domestic policy plan.
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Congress has never let the minimum wage erode for this long
June 17, 2019A simple way to fix this problem once and for all would be to adopt automatic annual minimum wage adjustment.
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