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 [...]
Letter To Trade Activists: While They Play Poker, Let’s Play Chess
...th to victory! Democrats lost control of the Senate, but we did not lose control over our campaign to stop corporate-driven, job-offshoring, democracy-stifling “free trade” [...]
Political Payback For TPP Fast Track Legislators Begins
...e in office after 2016. We are now gearing up for a campaign to stop the TPP this Fall or Winter. Join the effort here. Hard feelings linger after Fast Track vote Oregon labor [...]
First Senate Vote On Fast Track For TPP On Tuesday
...V) has promised to make an effort to delay the vote until after the Patriot Act and highway infrastructure legislation are resolved. His procedural vote is scheduled on Tuesday at 2:30. If [...]
A Brief History Of The Friday Fast For Justice
...s in solidarity, to amplify the protest of the 166 men imprisoned at that time. WAT held demonstrations in various locations—from New York City, to Chicago, to Perrysburg, Ohio. Over 100 [...]
Popular Resistance Newsletter – TPP Toxicity Grows, We Can Stop It
...including plants and animals, to turn everything into a commodity for profit. The refrain is always the same: profits come first. The necessities of the people and protection of the planet [...]
Now Is The Time: People’s Block Of Fast Track
...ney) from Obama and the multinational corporations to pass Fast Track. When the bill drops (if it does) there will be a powerful people’s response across the country and [...]
NLRB Deals Major Blow To Fight For 15
...food companies accountable as the direct employers of millions of workers at franchise restaurants across the United States. In the event of a favorable ruling, the arduous [...]
Fast Food CEO Andy Puzder Has No Business As Labor Secretary
...enate Hearings Fast-Food Mogul Andy Puzder Opposes Minimum Wage Hikes, Steals Workers’ Pay, Violates Overtime Laws, and Forces Employees onto Public [...]
Fast-Food Workers Walk Off Jobs In ‘100 City’ Low-Pay Protest
...a growing movement of workers demanding higher wages, workers at around 100 restaurants plan to walk off jobs “Getting paid $7.25 for work, it makes me feel like a slave really.” [...]
Low-wage Workers, Top-down Unions
...ates, “Fight for 15” actions like this one have spurred a debate over what constitutes a living wage, casting a spotlight on working families in an economy where the odds are [...]
USDA Approves ‘Untested, Inherently Risky’ GMO Apple
...rst GMO apple, genetically engineered to not turn brown after it’s sliced. The company that makes the apple wants you to believe that consumer demand was behind the invention. But the [...]
Yeb Saño’s Fast For Climate Offers Sanity Amid The Madness
...e these promising benefits, fasts are generally insufficient on their own. As Nagler explained, “Historically social justice and peace movements have not had a way of [...]
Zeese And Flowers: TPP Fight Is NOT Over!
...at the TPP is very likely to become a national issue educating tens of millions about it and mobilizing even more than were active during Fast Track. We have talked to people [...]
New Fast Food Chain Pays $15 Per Hour
As fast food workers strike for higher wages, pundits are dismissing their demands as unrealistic. But an exploding burger chain in Detroit proves the naysayers are thinking in a [...]