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Tens Of Thousands Take Streets In Pay Protest

October 20, 2014 Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com , , ,
Tens of thousands of union members have marched through central London to highlight their calls for pay rises. Members of Unite, Unison, the National Union of Teachers, the Communication Workers Union, the Royal College of Nurses and Equity took to the streets in the capital on Saturday, while other protests were held in Glasgow and Belfast. Pensioners and anti-nuclear activists also took part. The TUC, which organised the Britain Needs a Pay Risedemonstration to mark the end of industrial action by public sector workers, including nurses, midwives and civil servants, said up to 90,000 people were on the march. Midwives went on strike for the first time this month to protest against the government’s decision not to pay a recommended 1% increase to all NHS staff. Hospital radiographers and prison officers are due to take action next week.

Restauranteurs Ban Tipping, Pay Living Wage

October 4, 2014 Bryce Covert, www.nationofchange.org , ,
A new restaurant in Philadelphia won’t allow customers to tip its waitstaff. Instead, it plans to pay employees a living wage with generous benefits. Chef Brian Oliveira and co-owner Cristian Mora of Girard Brasserie and Bruncherie, set to open at the end of the month, told ThinkProgress that while wages will vary depending on workers’ experience, they will average about $13 an hour. “On all our other interviews we had said $11,” Mora said, “but we are going to do better than that.” On top of that, all employees — whether full time or part time — will get four paid vacation days for every six months they work as well as some paid sick days that haven’t been determined yet. The restaurant will also pay 100 percent of the cost of health care benefits.

America’s Most Invisible Workforce Is One We Need Most

October 2, 2014 Ai-jen Poo, www.theguardian.com ,
There are at least 3m care workers across the United States. They help our loved ones eat and bathe while providing emotional support and human connection. These workers also take care of us – making it possible to go to work every day knowing our loved ones are in capable hands. Yet in return for the life-sustaining supports that care workers provide, we have failed to care for them. Care workers earn, on average, less than $10 per hour. They rarely receive paid vacation or sick days. Most workers are subject to termination without notice or severance pay; many without citizenship status fear they can do nothing to improve their situations.

Fast Food Workers Strike Across The Nation

September 4, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org ,
On Thursday, September 4th, fast food workers across the nation went on strike for a $15 an hour wage in more than 100 cities. For the last year fast food workers have been walking out and the campaign is building to what is the largest strike yet in the campaign. Reportedly, arrests are being made: in New York City already 21 have been arrested and in Detroit 50 were arrested. The campaign has been escalating in size and tactics, this is the seventh in a series of one-day strikes and civil resistance will be a major ingredient of the protests. The first fast food worker walk out was held in New York City in November, 2012. Also joining the protests were home care workers seeking a living wage. Home care workers will be joining the strikes in six cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Seattle. Workers are also complaining about working conditions, stolen wages and the need for collective bargaining.

Protesters Occupy University Of Birmingham After Pair Banned

July 29, 2014 Matthew Cannon, www.birminghammail.co.uk , , ,
A group of protesters are occupying part of the University of Birmingham today in response to the institution’s decision to ban two pupils last week. The protesters acting under the name of Defend Education Birmingham say the demonstration is needed to defend the “democratic right to dissent on campus”at all English universities. Last week, one month before they were due to graduate, Simon Furse and Kelly Rogers were suspended from their course until March next year for their part in an eight day protest at the ceremonial Senate Chamber in the Aston Webb building. The pair were demanding the living wage be paid to all staff at the Edgbaston-based facility. University chiefs also handed former guild vice president of education Hattie Craig a six-month suspended sentence after the completion of a lengthy nine month disciplinary procedure. Today’s activists have released a list of demands they want to see met before they will leave the grounds.

Stop The War On The Poor Campaign

July 11, 2014 Stop the War on the Poor, www.PopularResistance.org , , , ,
Stop the War on the Poor commemorates Martin Luther King Jr’s Poor People’s Campaign (PPC). In 1968, just prior to his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr condemned the Vietnam War and called for the PPC culminating in a Poor People’s March in DC in June, demanding a living wage and a guaranteed income. He said Congress had shown "hostility to the poor" by spending "military funds with alacrity andgenerosity”. Coretta Scott King spoke out against poverty and in support of welfare mothers. King learnt from welfare mothers. They had been calling for a poor people’s campaign and urging his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), to oppose “anti-welfare” legislation and support their right to welfare. As a result of their leadership, King became anti-capitalist and anti-war.
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