By Vivian Ho February 28, 2020 The University of California, Santa Cruz, issued termination letters on Friday to 54 graduate students who have been waging a months-long strike for a cost-of-living-adjustment amid soaring rents. The firings came as graduate students at the University of California, Davis, and University of California, Santa Barbara, began their own […]
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By Kenny Kuhn February 27, 2020 Marrero State Representative Kyle M. Green Jr. wants to raise the state minimum wage to $9 an hour this legislative session with a pre-filed bill. Others have tried to pass bills to raise the minimum wage from its current $7.25 an hour. Some economists believe raising the wage would
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By Melissa Gomez March 2, 2020 Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled a plan for farmworker and food chain employee rights Monday that would bolster federal safety protections and workers’ access to basic rights. The Massachusetts senator’s proposal comes the day before Super Tuesday, when voters cast ballots in 14 states including California, home to about a
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By Gambit Weekly March 2, 2020 Coinciding with International Women’s Day, New Orleans activists will host a march Sunday, March 8, to demand higher wages and better conditions for the city’s women, trans and non-binary workers. This will be the second annual International Working Women’s Day march in New Orleans. Organized by the New Orleans
By Phoebe Doscher February 29, 2020 Forty-five percent of Gettysburg College support staff earn less than $15 an hour, a 2017 survey found. That same year, an analysis by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers found that the living wage for a family of four with two wage earners and two children in Adams County was
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