Pittsburgh Philadelphia and Seattle City Councils, along with the community-based pressure pushing them, are proving that there is still a lot of leverage and some bite past the bark in using cable franchise renewal agreements to wrest concessions from the arrogant, monopolistic Comcast. We have been tussling with Comcast for years now over their half-hearted …
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Minimum Wage Increases for Tipped Employees are Critical
London Great news from Seattle as a major US city stepped up and put workers on track to make $15 per hour. Regular minimum wage workers would see their wages in smaller enterprises go up steadily until 2021 to achieve that level. Big employers with 500 or more workers, like Amazon, would get there between …
Movement to Raise Minimum Wages Going Strong across the Country
New Orleans It’s encouraging to see the increasing momentum building across the country both at the state and city level for increases in the minimum wage. The signature victory in SeaTac, Washington outside of Seattle, narrowly winning $15 per hour has attracted huge interest and unfortunately is now delayed by court action reducing its …