New Orleans The House of Representatives voted in favor of an increase on the minimum wage. The package they proposed when this way: Step One: 60 days after passage = $5.85 Step Two: 14 months after passage = $6.55 Step Three: 26 months after passage = $7.25 All of this looks good though only because it …
Category: Labor Organizing
Labor Under Fire in Asia
Beijing Labor, whether organized or unorganized, is under some pressure in this part of the world, just as it seems to be in so many other countries. In Japan we stumbled into the news that the union density fell for the 31st straight year to 18.4% with more than 10,000,000 members. Indeed better than the situation …
Tianamen Square
Bejing Brown is the color of Bejing, just as it was Shanghai, but here at least this is less a matter of the air than the stark and almost barren landscape everywhere around the city. Everything was clearer partially because we read that the weather was changing. A front was coming in from Siberia which would …