Little Rock Sara Jayaraman, the co-director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and director of the Food Labor Research Institute at the University of California at Berkeley recently wrote an impassioned op-ed largely trying to put pressure on Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York, to extend the increase in wages from fast food to all …
Tag: low wage workers
Discovering Precarious Work and “Hotel Mama”
Charlotte Is it just me or is the mainstream starting to discover precarious employment? Maybe it’s the “fight for $15” push that’s opening eyes? Maybe it’s a residue of the Occupy 1% theme? Maybe it’s the yawning gap between the rich and the rest of us? I’m not sure, but I know two things. One, …
Public Subsidies of Low Wages
New Orleans The Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California has released a report looking at many federal and state subsidies directed at relief for lower income Americans. All good. What they found though is that a huge percentage of this kind of support is not in Republican ideological terms, …
The Precariat and the Global Erosion of Job Security
London When I first saw the term “precariat,” it was used by a labor relations professor in the United Kingdom referring to my advocacy of the need to aggressively organize lower waged workers into unions. Though I wasn’t sure I had heard the term used before I was pretty clear we were talking about families whose lives …
More Dilution of Affordable Care Act for Lower Income Workers
London We may think that Congress does nothing but try to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and although they do a whole lot of that, like it or not both parties do come together every blue moon to amend the Affordable Care Act, but when they do so, it’s not necessarily a win for the …