worker rights – Page 113

Oakland workers celebrate new minimum wage

March 2, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

On Mar. 2, tens of thousands of Oakland workers will get a pay raise, and thousands more will have paid sick days for the first time.

Restaurant workers picket for fair contract and respect

February 26, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

Some 65 workers at Oaks Corner have been without a contract for two and a half years, and haven't had a raise in eight years.

Speaking for millions, union leaders declare “it’s our turn”

February 25, 2015 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

A group of the nation's top union leaders, looking dead serious, filed silently in and up to the front of the press room at the Westin Hotel in Atlanta.

Wisconsin workers again battle Walker’s anti-labor steamroller

February 25, 2015 By Dominique Paul Noth

Trashing promises to provide a fair hearing, the Republican leader of Wisconsin's state Senate labor committee rammed through a bill that would make union shops illegal.

Walmart’s raise for workers “proof collective action works”

February 20, 2015 By Combined Sources

Walmart announced today it was giving its lowest-wage workers a raise to at least $9 an hour by April and $10 an hour by 2016.