Federal workers without a union on their side would get a major economic boost if the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee would adopt a proposal by AFGE and other unions to boost the federal minimum wage of hourly employees to $15 an hour.
Raising the minimum wage is a crucial first step to restoring the shattered American Dream. The same American Dream that gave this homeless kid with a GED a chance to succeed.
Senate Republicans – including Sen. Richard Burr from North Carolina – used a filibuster to block a bill on Wednesday that would raise the minimum wage to $10.10.
Raising the minimum wage is only the first step in addressing the heart of the matter with our economy – falling wages.
Servers are fed up with living off tips. They are standing up for 1 FAIR WAGE.
Bloomberg asked low-income workers around the U.S. to describe their jobs, aspirations and fears. Theirs are faces you won’t soon forget.
While the rest of us take Thanksgiving for granted, millions of Americans are struggling just to get by.
What dinner could you provide your family if all you had to spend was $14.50?
Cherie Berry is either clueless about the fact that minimum wage earners who work full-time, 40 hours a week, in one year earn only $15,080 – or she doesn’t care. Either way, Cherie Berry should not be North Carolina’s Commissioner of Labor.
