Kawakawa, New Zealand After decades of organizing to raise the minimum wage at the local, state, federal, and international level and winning more battles than losing, it is still frustrating to see the inequality gap increasing in country after country, as we continue to be ignored in Congress with a frozen national minimum wage and …
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Bits Along the Road
Manchester Two words heard regularly in the UK are “sorted” and “bits.” Sorted makes sense in a way. Get organized, straighten out, arrange in place, whatever, to sort something is to put it right, and the term is ubiquitous. Almost as common is a reference to “bits” with is a catchall for a miscellaneous everything …
On Wages, If Walmart can Raise Wages, Why Not Everyone
Shreveport Walmart is still the world and America’s largest single private sector employer. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, they still leave a huge footprint in their home state just as they do around the world. For decades, Walmart led the race to the bottom, sweating workers on wages and hours, allegedly and likely discriminating on gender and …