Is Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority For The TPP Dead?
...d increasing wages. Business groups and Republicans, however, were disappointed with the comments. “Awful timing,” Bill Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council, [...]
Stop The Fast Track To A Future Of Global Corporate Rule
...ge for votes. In the past, votes were held open past the legal time limit as members of Congress were picked off one by one until there were enough votes to pass. We need to maintain [...]
2,009 Orgs Call On Congress To Oppose Fast Track Authority For TPP
...c Partnership — a trade deal that is a raw deal for consumers,” said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. “The fine print in [...]
Fast Food Strikes Hitting Fifth City: Milwaukee
...something about punitive management: “Just because you have on a blue shirt doesn’t mean you’re better than me.” As I’ve reported, these recent work stoppages [...]
Tens of Thousands To Strike, Following Election Defined By Rigged Economy
...ent to nearly 20 airports serving 2 million passengers a day, and risking arrest via mass civil disobedience in front of McDonald’s restaurants from Detroit to Denver. Workers spanning [...]
Fast-Food CEOs Making 1,200 Times Workers’ Wages Are Clueless
A grand canyon of inequality exists between fast food CEOs and the workers who make their corporate and personal fortunes. In the past decade, [...]
Fast-Food Worker Strike About To Go Global
...global. Workers from dozens of countries on six continents are joining the push for higher pay and worker rights, it was announced Wednesday at a press conference outside a McDonald’s [...]
White House Reveals Desperate Lack of Support for TPP
...nsion plan and lobbying. Positive comments from the Humane Society are especially strange, since one of the goals of the agreement, according to Friends of the Earth, is “to undercut [...]
Low-wage workers rising up in New York City
...rs with New York Communities for Change (NYCC) stand by the entrance distributing leaflets, urging costumers to eat elsewhere. The previous day, on November 29, employees of [...]
Fast Food Worker Rehired With the Help of the Community
By Ashley CurtinNation of Change, December 8, 2012 On Nov. 30, 200-plus fast food workers returned to their jobs with major support from the community after a historic [...]
Fast Food Strike Wave Spreads to Detroit
...sday. “I can’t even think about groceries.” A spokesperson for Jimmy John’s declined to comment on Thursday’s strike; McDonald’s and Wendy’s did not [...]
McDonalds Workers Sue Over Wage Theft
...gan allege that they would start getting paid only when customers walked into the restaurants, even if they showed up to work hours earlier. New York McDonald’s workers, who filed their [...]
$15 Per Hour Is Not An Accident
...ge. The victory in San Francisco is yet another sign of how fast-food workers have set the standard for a living wage across the country: as Businessweek [...]
NY Moves Toward $15 Minimum Wage For Fast Food Workers
...ive in poverty.” Under pressure from progressives, Cuomo ordered the state’s labor commissioner to convene the wage board earlier this year and asked its members to determine an [...]
Tomorrow: Fast Food Workers Prepare To Strike “For Our Dignity”
...the rent on time?” On Thursday, August 29, thousands of fast food and low-wage workers in approximately 50 US cities are walking off the job in a massive one-day strike [...]