Trader Joe’s embraces living wage, rejects Walmart-style labor policies
From The Atlantic, March 25, 2013: The average American cashier makes $20,230 a year, a salary that in a single-earner household would leave a family of four living under the…
From The Atlantic, March 25, 2013: The average American cashier makes $20,230 a year, a salary that in a single-earner household would leave a family of four living under the…
One of the objections to the Affordable Care Act is that it will encourages employers to cut employee hours to create more part time work in order to avoid the…
The nation’s largest computer infrastructure company today announced it would cut 4,000 jobs, representing 5 percent of its workforce, citing the challenge of global competition as reason to reorganize despite…
Today fast food workers at several of the nation’s largest chains including McDonald’s and KFC are walking out to draw attention to low-wage jobs, demand better pay for their hard…
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has done the unthinkable by proposing rule changes in the Senate to restrict filibusters. The proposed change has been considered before by both parties…
The coming student loan debt crisis has been widely discussed but it remains low on the list of problems facing Congress and the priorities of the American people. In fact,…
The Labor Department is reporting that the economy added 200,000 jobs in June, beating the expectations of analysts by about 35,000 jobs. The effective rate of unemployment remained the same…