Closing the Wage Gap
Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.
‘It’s a struggle out here’: Workers march for $15 per hour and right to unionize in Milwaukee
By Ricardo Torres February 13, 2020 Less than a month after employees at Fiserv Forum claimed victory on a tentative agreement to receive $15 per hour, workers took their cause to City Hall. On Thursday, roughly 100 people marched on City Hall carrying boxes containing thousands of signatures on a petition to ask city officials
Giants prospect calls minor-leaguers’ raise good start… but still unlivable
By Henry Schulman February 14, 2020 Minor-leaguers will get a bump in pay starting in 2021, a good first step but hardly a giant leap, according to the lawyer and former Giants pitching prospect who is spearheading a class-action lawsuit on the behalf of thousands of players that seeks better compensation and back pay. “It’s
Legislation advances to raise Rhode Island’s minimum wage
By Rachel Thatcher February 14, 2020 Rhode Island appears poised to raise the state’s minimum wage. The state House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday night to raise the minimum wage to $11.50 an hour on Oct. 1. The hourly rate is currently set at $10.50. The state Senate approved a bill last week to raise
Workers, advocates push lawmakers to increase minimum wage to $15 in North Carolina
By WWay News February 14, 2020 A coalition of labor groups, advocates and business and faith leaders will call for a $15 minimum wage at a public hearing Thursday in downtown Raleigh. Packed inside the auxiliary room at First Baptist Church in downtown Raleigh they chanted, “Put 15 on our check, we want we said!”
Tories quietly exempt scores of rogue firms from being named and shamed over minimum wage
By Nicola Bartlett FEB 11, 2020 Ministers have brought back a policy of naming and shaming firms who underpay their staff but the government have quietly exempted scores of rogue firms from being named and shamed over not paying the minimum wage. Ministers axed a policy of publishing the names of businesses who don’t pay
Washington County decides against separate pay scale for part-timers
By Julie E. Greene Feb 10, 2020 Washington County will meet new minimum-wage requirements six months ahead of the state’s mandated schedule moving forward. The county commissioners, by consensus, recently agreed to provide raises to meet the new minimum-wage scale, effective July 1 of each year instead of Jan. 1 of the following year. For