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Cuomo to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 for All New York State Employees
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo
announced on Tuesday that he would unilaterally establish a $15 minimum
wage for all state workers, making New York the first state to set such
a high wage for its public employees.
Read the entire story @NYTimes
Related: Labor's New Reality @LATimes
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WHAT'S NEWS THIS WEEK:
UFCW Local 1500 President Bruce Both's editorial on veterans was featured in two NY newspapers this week, The Downtown Express & Gay City News. We are forever grateful to every veteran for their selfless service.
2. Labor Pains for Mrs. Green's: Company Found Guilty of Labor Violations Polls West Village Community on View of Unions, Workers...
The real question is, why would a company found guilty of firing workers because they wanted a union, ask a community what they think about workers? Read the entire story @NYPost.
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The company is in turmoil, and it's treatment of men and women who work in the stores is shameful.
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Its most
prominent organizing campaigns of recent years — of fast-food workers,
domestics, taxi drivers and Wal-Mart employees — have prompted states
and cities to raise their minimum wage and create more worker-friendly
regulations. But what these campaigns haven't done is create more than a
small number of new dues-paying union members. Nor, for the foreseeable
future, do unions anticipate that they will.
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“This expanded
NAFTA style trade agreement will continue offshoring US jobs, increase
wealth inequality, grow our trade deficits, and plunge more American
families into poverty. It is clear that the TPP is written for the
exclusive profit and monopoly interests of transnational corporations,
granting them powers that usurp our systems and principles of democracy,
civil liberties, and human rights,” said Frank Natalie, Executive Vice
President of the Capital District Area Labor Federation.
Related: Obama pushes TPP ahead of Asia trip
As the
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) debate intensifies, a coalition of U.S.
and Mexican labor and civil society groups are taking an unprecedented
legal approach to protect workers’ rights that will test the strength of
labor protections in international trade agreements.
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"Everybody in retail is dealing with an increase in minimum wage," said Cheryl Bachelder, CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (PLKI). "We will adjust to increased costs just like we have before. Life will go on. There's been too much hubbub about it."
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On
Tuesday, one year before the 2016 presidential election, thousands of
fast food workers walked out of their jobs in 270 cities. Organizers say
it is the largest action yet by the three-year old Fight for $15
movement. An even larger number of workers from other low-paying jobs
joined them in marches on local city halls in a total of 500 cities to
send a message to political candidates: they represent 42 percent of the
American workforce, and if they register to vote, they make a
difference.
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Yesterday, a
large group of workers at an IKEA store in Massachusetts told the
company they want to unionize. IKEA’s response so far? Nothing.
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An Iraq War Veteran explains how defending America against climate change, can help defend our country. |
A very similar
situation to A&P bankruptcy is ongoing on the west coast, right
now. Super chain, Haggen is auctioning off its stores. Thousands of
UFCW members are affected.
Here's the latest UFCW statement.
Elsewhere & Out There:
Need for Climate Awareness: A study partially funded by Nasa predicted that civilization as we know it could be steadily heading for a collapse within the next century due to climate change– and the window to create impactful change is narrowing. Read the entire story here.
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