Ballot initiatives offer a tool “to not only block authoritarian rule and ideology, but to build a world where all of us thrive and live with dignity — the world we deserve.”
The National Labor Relations Act still functions, just barely, for Starbucks workers. Employees at fast-food franchises face even worse odds under federal labor law.
A ballot measure to raise pay to $23 an hour could help workers in labor negotiations and boost the local economy.
Young workers face pay discrimination in 34 states and DC
Workers are celebrating minimum-wage increases around the country, but the new frontier is already creeping toward $20.
Corporations used the “crying wolf” strategy to claim that raising the minimum wage would harm the poor, that Social Security was a slippery slope towards socialism, and that the government has gone “too far” in regulating carbon emissions.
The minimum wage continues to be a powerful tool for fostering economic equity and ensuring a dignified standard of living for workers across the nation.
In total, workers will receive $6.95 billion in additional wages from state minimum wage increases.
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Brandon Johnson, the labor-backed mayor of Chicago, is poised to deliver his first major victory: scrapping the subminimum wage for tipped workers.
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