Newark Local 100 members sent their petitions into their Congressional delegations in Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana at the end of last week. The Raise the Wages Act is finally coming to debate in the House of Representatives this week. The bill would raise the federal minimum to $15 per hour over a period of years. …
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Time to Make a Deal on the Federal Minimum Wage
New Orleans The following is my guest blog on the Working Class Perspectives site run by Professor Sherry Linkon of Georgetown and Professor John Russo, formerly of Youngstown State University in Ohio and now visiting scholar with the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and Working Poor, also at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The federal minimum …
Payroll Cards and Fees are Workers’ Rip-off and in Some Cases Illegal
New Orleans Some employers, including McDonalds, Walgreens, and others are forcing workers to be paid through bankcards. They “load” the cards with the amount owed the workers, and according to recent reports are even making money via kickbacks or rebates from the card issuer, oftenbig banks like Citi and others. These same banks make out …