Wages – Page 89 – People's World

The Congressional Budget Office minimum wage controversy

February 24, 2014 By John Case

"Every time momentum builds for lifting wages, conservative ideologues say it will cost jobs. Every time they've been dead wrong."

UIC stonewalling forces faculty strike

February 19, 2014 By Evlynn Wier

For the past 18 months, University of Illinois Chicago faculty have been negotiating for a livable salary for full-time lecturers.

Labor launches campaign to raise wages across America

February 18, 2014 By John Wojcik

We are declaring here and now that the labor movement is going to focus like a laser beam on raising wages for all American workers, union and non-union," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters today.

Biden blasts “right-to-work”

February 6, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Business and right wing backers of so-called "right to work" laws really want "the right for them to eliminate your right to have a say in your work."

Closing wealth gap tops Obama’s State of the Union

January 29, 2014 By John Wojcik

President Obama, in his 2014 State of the Union speech here last night, defined narrowing of the unprecedented wealth gap in America as a major task facing the nation.