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April 28, 2015
News & Commentary

Whitney Benns

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka delivered a speech today stating that labor is not ready to endorse a candidate for the 2016 presidential election, a message that has been characterized as a “memo to Hillary” by Politico. Trumka said that working men and women are looking for a candidate that can deliver on the “American Promise,” […]

April 27, 2015
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Emily Cusick

In an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal, Pakistani immigrant Amir Siddiqi has realized the American Dream, but believes Washington’s new labor rules are a “nightmare” that impede the progress of small business owners. Siddiqi, who worked his way up to become a franchise owner after years of work in the restaurant industry, writes […]

April 26, 2015
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Jon Weinberg

According to Reuters “truckers who haul freight from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will vote on Saturday whether to go on strike, organizers said, in a move that could revive labor tensions at the nation’s busiest cargo hub as it recovers from a crippling dockworkers dispute.” Truckers are demanding to be allowed […]

April 24, 2015
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

Lynne C. Hermie, the attorney who successfully represented the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers against a sex discrimination claim, will now represent Twitter in a discrimination lawsuit filed by a female employee, the Wall Street Journal reports. Twitter employee Tina Huang argues that the company has a secretive process that favors male employees for […]

April 23, 2015
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

Approximately 40 contract workers walked off their jobs in the U.S. Senate to join more than 1,000 activists calling for President Obama and Congress to pay federal contractors more, according to CNN. Obama passed an Executive Order in February raising the hourly wage of federal contract workers to $10.10. The workers say they need a wage […]

April 22, 2015
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Daniel Crossen

In an interview with the Washington Post, Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez sought to push back on claims that the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal currently being considered by Congress would hurt American workers. Perez argued that unlike previous agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, the TPP would “bake labor provisions into the […]

April 21, 2015
News & Commentary

Rebecca Chang

At Vox, AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka discusses the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the problems it may pose for organized labor. The AFL-CIO has pulled all donations to congressional campaigns in opposition to the TPP, which is currently on a “fast track” for approval by Congress. As Trumka discusses, the AFL-CIO is deeply concerned about certain aspects of the […]

April 19, 2015
News & Commentary

Sabrina Lee

On Thursday, New York City Officials announced that all of the workers in a proposed office tower in the Hudson Yards project in Midtown Manhattan would be paid a living wage—$13.30 per hour—in the first broad application of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Executive Order No. 7. Signed last fall, the order calls for a living […]

April 17, 2015
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

On the heels of the “Fight for Fifteen” campaign, The New York Times reports that the movement is significant for “political activists looking to the 2016 presidential campaign and beyond” as a “potentially pivotal moment.” The wage fight coincides with several important political developments in the last two years. These developments include city and state […]

April 16, 2015
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

Yesterday, thousands of employees in an estimated 200 cities rallied for a $15 minimum wage, Politico reports. The Los Angeles Times reports that nearly 1,000 demonstrators rallied in Los Angeles. The Chicago Tribune reports that many adjunct professors participated in rallies in Chicago. As we’ve covered previously, adjunct professors often earn poverty-level wages, and have […]

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