Senate battle on minimum wage hike to erupt after Easter
That announcement by Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, brought cheers from a jammed Capitol rally after the labor-backed "Raise The Wage" bus ended its 11-state tour by halting at the foot of Capitol Hill.
Kentuckians blast McConnell for opposing minimum wage hike
"Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) has voted against every minimum wage increase since he's been in the U.S. Senate, but he's voted for his own raise and now he's worth $25 million."
"America Needs A Raise" bus rolls into Maine
A Center for American Progress report found that raising the minimum wage will not only benefit workers and the local economy, but also will reduce taxpayer costs.
Nationwide spring bus tours to culminate in marches on Washington
The campaigns, for legalizing undocumented people and for raising the minimum wage, show labor's determination to get out in the streets and make unionists' voices heard.
Union leaders hail Obama order raising minimum wage for contract workers
They urged other politicians, notably lawmakers in Congress, to follow his lead and raise the national minimum wage.
Voters cast mail ballots in the Evergreen State
Washington State voters received their mail ballots last week, their chance to vote on I-522, a statewide ballot measure that would require labeling of all genetically engineered food.
Minimum wage workers press Senate for hike
WASHINGTON - For seven years, Carolle Fleurio has been a cook at a family restaurant in Stockbridge, Ga., and even though she enjoys the job, she told a Senate panel here, it's tough to raise a family on $8 an hour.
MO AFL-CIO Convention: Focus on elections and ballot initiatives
"There couldn't be a clearer choice. The up-coming November elections are about two very different and distinct paths for our country."
Consumers league: Plight of restaurant workers makes dining out unappetizing
Restaurant servers don't receive the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour - they get only $2.13, the federal "tipped minimum wage." That wage has been the same for 21 years.
Democratic Party platform backs workers' rights
The platform, up for adoption at the party's convention in Charlotte, N.C., so strongly backs workers' rights that it virtually endorses the Employee Free Choice Act,.
