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UC Berkeley students hold ‘wildcat’ strike for more pay, rehiring of fired workers

By Natalie Orenstein March 16, 2020 UC Berkeley will become familiar with term “digital picket” this week, as graduate students, who are already working from home because of the coronavirus, begin a work stoppage Monday. The student workers are going on a “wildcat” strike — meaning it hasn’t been authorized by UAW 2865, the UC […]

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Coronavirus response a ‘vast experiment’ that’s changing U.S. workplaces

Closing The Wage Gap / Karl Kramer

By Edward Lempien March 17, 2020 While health leaders and policymakers race to limit the spread of COVID-19, the emerging crisis is having a dramatic impact on millions of healthy Americans — in restaurants, offices, taxicabs, classrooms and other places where they work. Just yesterday, six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area issued a

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Advocates aim for more and better paying jobs for people with disabilities, who sometimes make less than minimum wage

Closing The Wage Gap / Karl Kramer

By Tabitha Mueller March 16, 2020 During the 2019 legislative session, a bill designed to phase out “subminimum wage” — the practice of paying disabled employees less than the minimum wage and sometimes as little as three to four cents an hour — died without a vote. But the push is not over. With help

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Myanmar workers seek up to K15,000 minimum wage

Closing The Wage Gap / Karl Kramer

By Tint Zaw Tun March 16, 2020 The surveys were presented at Wednesday’s meeting of the National Committee for the Minimum Wage held in Nay Pyi Taw to begin preliminary review of the current minimum wage as mandated by law. Labour Minister U Thein Swe, who presided over the meeting, said everything would be considered

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Why businesses get away with paying pennies to employees with disabilities

Closing The Wage Gap / Karl Kramer

By Sara Luterman March 16, 2020 As we head into the endgame of the Democratic primary, it may not seem like the remaining candidates have very much in common. Former Vice President Joe Biden has campaigned for a return to the comfort and normalcy of the Obama era, while Sen. Bernie Sanders is asking for

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