Little Rock When they come after you, the playbook is clear, and all the plays are coordinated. The fake studies, the overheated websites, the bullet points masking as “facts,” the PR, academic, and Congressional shills who are all trying to legitimize the bare knuckled, business-funded, rightwing assaults against progressive organizations. This is all Rick Berman …
Month: January 2014
Unions Pushing Up Wages from Below
Little Rock I’m not sure whether it’s a backstory, a footnote, or just good organizers grabbing a handle and moving fast and hard with it, but under, over, and around the new push to $10.10, rather than $15.00 per hour, is some good, solid, and exciting union organizing of contract workers in federal facilities around …
$10.10 Executive Order May Have More Impact Than You Think
Little Rock The President in his fifth State of the Union address said that he would issue an executive order raising the minimum hourly wage for workers employed under federal subcontracts to $10.10 per hour, the same number that he and many others have been advocating on the stair step proposal for the federal minimum …