Tag: living wage

What’s really happening is more accurately described as a living-wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a childcare shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.

The main brunt of this empire's tactics is to instill this 'Dog eat Dog' mentality into we working stiffs.

Compensation for CEOs is growing at double the pace of ordinary workers'.

Full employment through a federal job guarantee makes sense – for workers, for the economy, for America.

Striking dining hall employees at the Ivy League school have turned the spotlight on the low salaries of administrative positions nationwide.

Inmates in prison are given opportunities to perform jobs for money in prison, however ,without getting paid anything close to living wages, they are released without the money to find housing and wind up homeless or living in shelters, making them more likely to re-offend.

This is the year to make all wages living wages.

One CEO wants to give his workers a raise, but in doing so, he would like to receive corporate subsidies. Wait, he actually wants us taxpayers to give money to rich corporations so they can pay their employees?

Lawmakers are shafting the underpaid workers who prepare their meals. Wages are less than $11 an hour, well below the very expensive cost of living in the Washington area.