Closing the Wage Gap
Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.
Disneyland Commits $59 million in Cast Member Pay During Park Closure
By TJ Muscaro March 20, 2020 … But while Disniacs all over the world are sad because they’ve temporarily lost their happy place, tens of thousands of people have been without a large source–if not the primary source–of their daily income. And Disneyland is doing its part to make it right! Over the 18 days
Thousands of Target employees work over 50 hours a week. Why don’t they get overtime?
By Max Nesterak March 17, 2020 Target Corp. has quietly settled half a dozen class action lawsuits and still faces two more from workers who allege the company has failed to pay overtime they’re owed. Target calls these workers “executive team leaders” and pays them managerial salaries — as opposed to hourly wages — that
Amazon’s coronavirus plan: Hire displaced restaurant workers, raise hourly pay
By Jonathan Capriel March 16, 2020 Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has its own economic stimulus plan for the global pandemic that has ground the economy to a near halt: Give laid-off and furloughed hospitality workers jobs delivering Prime packages. The e-commerce company will hire an additional 100,000 workers in the United States and temporarily boost
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
Coronavirus response a ‘vast experiment’ that’s changing U.S. workplaces
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
Advocates aim for more and better paying jobs for people with disabilities, who sometimes make less than minimum wage
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