Work harder, not smarter: the struggle of young workers
By Niall Hignett, Red Pepper
When employees understand their rights, and know how to protect themselves, they are primed to battle decrepit employment conditions.
By Niall Hignett, Red Pepper
When employees understand their rights, and know how to protect themselves, they are primed to battle decrepit employment conditions.
By James Meadway, Open Democracy
It’s time for some bold thinking on how to fairly protect those in work from the worst of its impact. A £15 an hour minimum wage by 2024 should be the target.
By Samuel Alexander, Alex Baumann, Resilience.org
In this article we’d like to offer some new thinking: a policy proposal that we feel has the potential to be transformative. At its simplest, our proposal involves providing self-selecting unemployed public housing residents with a basic, living wage.
By Annette Jensen, Future Perfect blog
Sina Trinkwalder did what all experts declared impossible: she built a textile factory in Germany and is paying decent wages.
By Brie Mazurek, Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture
On Wednesday, food workers and other low-wage earners around the country rallied to increase the federal minimum wage to $15, which would more than double the current federal rate of $7.25 for untipped and $2.13 for tipped workers.