The D.C. City Council voted to increase the minimum wage to $11.50/hour and guarantee paid sick days to tipped workers!
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When workers can’t afford basic necessities, it lowers their purchasing power and slows the economy for everyone. Everyone deserves the freedom to earn a decent living. Nearly all workers have access to a multitude of federal, state, and sometimes local laws that set basic workplace standards, such as a minimum… Read More»
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On Thursday, in 100 different cities around the country, fast-food workers across the country are walking off the job to speak out against unsustainable, poverty-level wages paid to workers in the restaurant industry. These men and women work for our nation’s most profitable food chains and still aren’t able to… Read More»
Vow to bring similar fights to cities around the country CONTACT: Ori Korin 202-822-2127 x126 Washington, D.C. – Following Mayor Vincent Gray’s veto last week of landmark legislation that would require D.C.’s big box retailers to pay workers a living wage of $12.50 an hour, Jobs with Justice and American… Read More»
Last Thursday, the California State Senate passed the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, AB 241! This vote gets California one step closer to extending equal labor rights to domestic workers. If signed by the Governor, AB 241 would provide all domestic workers who care for California’s homes and families with… Read More»
New polling from Hart Research released today indicates strong support for D.C.’s big-box living wage bill. The Large Retailer Accountability Act (LRAA), championed by DC Jobs with Justice and Respect DC, would guarantee living wages from retailers with over $1 billion annual profits and stores over 75,000 square feet. The… Read More»
Activists vow to overturn veto CONTACT: Ori Korin 202-822-2127 x126 Washington, D.C. – Following Mayor Vincent Gray’s veto of landmark legislation that would require D.C.’s big box retailers to pay workers a living wage of $12.50 an hour, Jobs with Justice and American Rights at Work have launched a city-wide… Read More»
Fast food strikers in Atlanta were spontaneously joined by Representative John Lewis
August 29, 2013 was truly a beautiful and historic day as fast food workers took the ‘march for freedom and jobs’ to fast food corporate employers in some 58 cities demanding respect and freedom from poverty wages. Specifically, the workers are demanding $15 per hour and the right to form… Read More»
Guest Post by Martin Bennett and Fred Glass Originally posted on Beyond Chron Fifty years ago, on August 28, 1963, the nation witnessed the largest march in its history. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom lives on in popular memory as the moment when Dr. Martin Luther King… Read More»
Thousands of DC residents have signed a petition urging Mayor Gray to pass the LRAA
Last month, the D.C. Council voted in favor of the Large Retailer Accountability Act of 2013 (LRAA), which calls for large retailers operating stores of 75,000 square feet or more, and whose parent company generates more than $1 billion in revenues annually, to provide workers a “living wage” of $12.50… Read More»