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Fast Food Workers Launch Biggest Strike To Date Demanding Higher Minimum Wage
Workers from McDonald’s, Burger King, Pizza Hut and other chains are holding a mass walkout Thursday as the battle to unionize – and receive higher wages – escalates.
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Seattle Passes Historic $15 Minimum Wage Law, Highest In the Nation
The historic victory will benefit 100,000 working people in the city, and is expected to give momentum to minimum wage campaigns burgeoning across the U.S.
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With California's Minimum Wage Set to Rise, Business Owners Still Peddling Fear
Labor unions lobbied heavily for the bill that passed the state legislature in September, raising California's minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2016, as business groups and restaurant owners continue to oppose the increase they say will mean layoffs.
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Fast Food Workers Strike Over Low Wages In Nationwide Protests
Thousands of low wage workers went on strike across 100 cities through the day, including Boston, Detroit, New York, Oakland, Los Angeles and St. Louis, signaling the growing clamor for action on income equality.
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Hedges: The Sparks of Rebellion
With the decimation of U.S. manufacturing along with the dismantling of our unions and opposition parties, we will have to search for different instruments of rebellion.
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California's Governor Brown Signs Bill Raising Minimum Wage to $10 Per Hour
Calling it a "matter of justice," Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that will raise California's minimum wage to $10 an hour within three years, giving the state one of the highest rates in the nation.
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Dodd-Frank Action: SEC To Require Transparency On CEO/Employee Pay Gap
The Securities and Exchange Commission will soon follow through with an executive pay transparency requirement as part of the Dodd-Frank law, requiring Fortune 500 companies to publish comparative salaries of its CEOs and average workers.
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Walmart Workers Strike in 15 U.S. Cities to Demand Better Pay
Thousands of Walmart employees went on strike Thursday in cities across the United States, demanding better pay and protesting the firing of those who previously demonstrated against the largest U.S. employer, with 1.3 million workers
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The Case for $15 and a Union for Low Wage Workers
It would be a good business decision for McDonald's and all the other leading fast-food chains to announce that they're doubling workers' pay, because those workers make it possible for such restaurants to remain profitable and successful.
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Fast Food Workers Nationwide Walk Out in Organized Strike Against Low Wages
The New York City-based Fast Food Forward campaign has spread across the country as workers unite to demand a $15 minimum wage.
