September 2019

By STEPHEN SINGER SEP 26, 2019 @6:00 AM The minimum wage in Connecticut is set to increase to $11 an hour on Tuesday. The General Assembly approved the higher minimum wage in party-line votes this spring. In the House, all Republicans opposed the legislation. All Democrats, except two, voted for it. In the Senate, no […]

By Dave Bartkowiak Jr. September 25, 2019 @6:45 AM DETROIT – Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders joined striking United Autoworkers (UAW) union members Wednesday when they picketed at the GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant. Wednesday marked the tenth day since union leaders decided to initiate a national strike Sunday, Sept. 15, against the automaker. By

By Walter Einenkel September 24, 2019 Any conversation about increasing the minimum wage will inevitably include the naysayer argument that increasing labor costs will scare employers from hiring, and in fact will lead to higher unemployment. The majority of Americans support raising our country’s pathetic minimum wages; and anytime increases to minimum wages are made,

By DREW HUTCHINSON & RUSSELL RAY SEP 25, 2019 Cherokee Nation Businesses announced that it will raise its workers’ minimum wage to $11 an hour, effective Oct. 1. The announcement comes after pay raises were approved last month for Cherokee Nation government workers. Journal Record editor Russell Ray discusses the specifics of these raises and

By Bill Laitner Sept. 26, 2019 @6:00 a.m. ET Michigan’s richest county is gradually shifting — politically — from red to purple, with blue in sight. On Wednesday, a slim Democratic majority on the countywide board carried on a bipartisan tradition established under longtime county executive L. Brooks Patterson, the county’s Republican standard-bearer until his