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 …
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Minimum Wage Only Rising in Small Steps Despite $15 Per Hour Demand
New Orleans It seems we may be involved in a protracted bit of high-low bargaining over minimum wages in the political and policy areas. The President has pushed for an increase of the federal minimum from the current $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour. The minimum wage has been frozen since the last year …
President Defaults on Net Neutrality, Companies Bully the Public
New Orleans The battleground is clear, so let’s hope that the contending forces are ready for a slugfest rather than a fake pillow fight. The FCC in a 3-2 vote put the chairman’s two-tracked proposal for a faster “pay for streaming” lane up for formal discussion and comment before a final vote in several months. …