Wages
Raise the minimum wage
March 28, 2012Despite claims of economic recovery heard recently, median weekly worker income for most months of the past two years, just like most years of the past 35 years, is either flat, or less, than the year...
Read moreTrumka explains why workers must back Obama
March 16, 2012"As president, Barack Obama has placed his faith in America's working men and women to lead our country to economic recovery and to our full potential as a nation," Richard Trumka said during the AFL-CIO Executive...
Read moreProposed rules would allow home care workers minimum wage, overtime
March 13, 2012Labor-backed Interfaith Worker Justice is mobilizing support for home health care workers.
Read moreUFCW: D.C.-Baltimore chains going nuclear vs. workers
March 12, 2012The Washington-Baltimore area's two biggest grocery chains, Giant and Safeway, are "going nuclear" in their war against their combined 30,000 workers.
Read moreBlack and Latino seniors face double poverty rates
February 28, 2012A new report says that 19.4% of Black seniors and 19%t of Latino seniors have incomes below the federal poverty line, compared to 9.4% for the senior population as a whole.
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