What We're Reading: Labor News Roundup
Wednesday, February 26, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Activists Win Coordinated Wage
Boost in D.C., Nearby Counties
- Labor Notes
In
December lawmakers in Washington, D.C. and two
neighboring Maryland counties
voted to raise the minimum wage to $11.50 per
hour in all three jurisdictions.
It was a regional cooperation unprecedented in
this country. Too often, minimum
wage increases are defeated when opponents
argue that businesses will flee
across city or state lines. JUFJ's Katie
Ashmore and Monica Kamen
report...
Staff Of In These
Times Magazine
Joins Communications Workers Of America
Union - Huffington
Post
The
staff
of the progressive independent magazine In
These Times joined the
Communications Workers of America on Monday,
formally making union members out
of a news outlet that's long chronicled the ups
and downs of the U.S. labor
movement...