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In the UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strike, Class War Meets the California Housing Crisis

Mairav Zonszein February 21, 2020 “This is a marathon, not a sprint,” Sarah Mason, a graduate student in sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz, tells a crowd of several hundred students, wrapping up the fourth day of an unprecedented wildcat strike that has drawn threats of mass dismissal and captured the attention of […]

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Minimum wage increases fueling faster wage growth for those at the bottom

Closing The Wage Gap / Karl Kramer

Andrew Van Dam and Rachel Siegel January 2, 2020 The United States’ lowest-paid workers are seeing their paychecks rise at the fastest pace in more than a decade. Slow wage growth has plagued the economy ever since jobs started coming back after the Great Recession. But that has been changing, with wages rising at all

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Shipt shoppers are the latest gig workers to organize

Closing The Wage Gap / Karl Kramer

Megan Rose Dickey February 24, 2020 Inspired by the work of Instacart shoppers over the last few years, a handful of workers at Target-owned Shipt, a grocery delivery service, are beginning to organize. With the help of two key Instacart shopper-activists, Vanessa Bain and Sarah Clarke, who goes by a pseudonym, Shipt workers are now

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Target’s a gig-economy company now … and that means gig-economy horror stories

Closing The Wage Gap / Karl Kramer

By Mark Reilly February 18, 2020 Target Corp. has been boosting its minimum wage rates for store and warehouse workers in recent years. But pay at its Shipt subsidiary seems to be going in the other direction, according to complaints from some of the delivery service’s contract workers. “Every single person is losing money,” one

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Faith leaders call for immediate, not gradual approach to increasing minimum wage

Closing The Wage Gap / Karl Kramer

By Jake Burns February 19, 2020 Faith leaders from across Virginia gathered below the State Capitol Wedneday to greet lawmakers and urge them to take a more immediate approach to increasing the minimum wage. Two proposals to increase Virginia’s minimum wage from $7.25 per hour, which has not changed since 2009, remain viable as the

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