New Orleans Maybe this is a bit better Labor Day for American workers than the last several. We do have some things that have broken our way. The minimum wage has finally gone up from $5.15 to $5.85 and stands to keep rising for the next couple of years. Good news! A …
Category: Labor Organizing
Bananeros Y Flora Trabajores
Quito There were widespread estimates of the size of the workforce in high dollar export agriculture of bananas and flowers in Ecuador, ranging from a million in each to a more realistic figure of 500,000 in each or perhaps, as one expert offered, 360,000 in bananas and a similar number in flowers. Either way 700,000 …
Laws that Work for Labor
Buenos Aires Hardly five blocks from the ACORN Argentina office on Moreno are a couple of multi-story buildings that house FAECYS, the Federacion Argentina de Empleados de Comercio y Servicios, essentially the union of commerce and service workers. With 800,000 members nearly, FAECYS is perhaps the largest union in the largest federation of workers in …