From NY Labor and Employer Lawyer Shirley Lin: The article describes the key provisions of New York Assembly Bill 8045 (2013), legislation drafted by AALDEF, Chinese Staff & Workers’ Association, NMASS, Legal Aid, and UJC. The anti-wage-theft proposal was designed based upon challenges advocates faced collecting from small businesses in…
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From ThinkProgress: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new report on Tuesday on the impacts of raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and $9 an hour. It found that a $10.10 minimum wage, implemented by 2016, would mean higher earnings for 16.5 million workers, resulting in $31…
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From USA Today: The executive action by Obama, who is pressing Congress to pass a minimum wage hike that would cover all workers, could potentially affect tens of thousands of low-wage earners who do janitorial, dish-washing and other tasks for the federal government through contractors. It remains uncertain whether the…
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It is the world’s biggest online business. But with questions being asked about its treatment of employees, what is it like to work at Amazon? Carole Cadwalladr lands a job in one of its giant warehouses and discovers the human cost of our lust for consumer goods. From The Guardian:…
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The A.F.L.-C.I.O. invited scores of nonunion groups to its four-day convention last week in Los Angeles to brainstorm. | Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images From NYT: For the delegates at the convention, which ended on Thursday, there was a burning realization that the status quo was not working…
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From WaPo: As New York Times labor writer Steve Greenhouse has noted, until 1975, “wages nearly always accounted for more than 50 percent of our nation’s GDP.” But in 2012 they fell to a record low of 43.5 percent. Those who make the economic engine run are receiving less of…
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On Monday, workers from major fast-food chains such as KFC, Wendy’s, Burger King and McDonald’s in seven cities — Detroit, New York City, Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Flint, Mich., and Kansas City, Mo. — will be staging a strike in a movement for higher wages. Reuters. From IBT: On Monday,…
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