London Great news from Seattle as a major US city stepped up and put workers on track to make $15 per hour. Regular minimum wage workers would see their wages in smaller enterprises go up steadily until 2021 to achieve that level. Big employers with 500 or more workers, like Amazon, would get there between …
Month: June 2014
WFP Knows the Rules: Save the Party First, Endorse the Candidates Second
New Orleans The headlines were all topspin, which is the way most people follow politics. The influential and growing political force in New York State, the Working Families Party, had made a deal, significantly brokered by the new Mayor of New York, and longtime WFP and New Party activist, Bill de Blasio, and would now …