http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/wadesworld24.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The old saw that “all politics are local,” has a lot of merit, but added up, the impact in national. That is alternately both a depressing and hopeful sign in the tea leaves still gathering from the midterm election. The Republicans took the Senate. Impossible …
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$10.10 Executive Order May Have More Impact Than You Think
Little Rock The President in his fifth State of the Union address said that he would issue an executive order raising the minimum hourly wage for workers employed under federal subcontracts to $10.10 per hour, the same number that he and many others have been advocating on the stair step proposal for the federal minimum …
Fast Food Tradeoff: Less Jobs for Living Wages
New Orleans In the national publicity one-day strikes for higher wages of $15 per hour that waved their banners in hundreds of cities around the country, no one really believes that the $15 per hour figure is anything other than a rallying cry or in bargaining terms, a first proposal. Organizers, including with the Service …