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Still Nickel and Dimed: Unpacking Tipping, Minimum Wage and the Fight for Equity

“What happened at Emancipation with…the idea of tipping being mutated from an extra bonus on top of the wage to becoming the wage itself—becoming a replacement for wages—really cannot be understood as anything other than a devaluation of Black lives and women’s work.” — Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage text If you’ve been…

By

Felice León

Published

March 24, 2021
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

‘I Am Somebody’: A Landmark Documentary’s Enduring Lesson That Labor Rights Are Civil Rights

In the spring of 1969, Coretta Scott King stood in front of a packed church in Charleston, S.C., to address a group of striking hospital workers. She wore a simple white dress and layered strands of necklaces, her pressed, shoulder-length hair nestled under a blue cap with 1199 written in large, white lettering. She called…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

January 20, 2020
News

#FightFor15: Richest Man Alive Deigns to Pay His Amazon (and Whole Foods) Minions $15 an Hour

Although that headline is indeed snarky, at this point, we’ll take it how we can get it. Jeff Bezos, who is indeed, the richest person alive on earth, announced on Tuesday that Amazon is raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all US employees, including part-time and temporary workers, a boon for those…

By

Angela Helm

Published

October 2, 2018
Fight for $15, Movement for Black Lives Plan Nationwide Protests to Fight Racism, Raise Pay

Fight for $15 and the Movement for Black Lives have joined forces for a nationwide protest on April 4 to fight racism, raise pay and resist the GOP crackdown on protest. Two of the nation’s most powerful social movements, including thousands of workers, elected officials and national civil rights leaders, will take to the streets…

By

Monique Judge

Published

March 24, 2017
O'Hare Airport Employees to Strike Nov. 29 as Part of Fight for $15 Movement

Hundreds of workers at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport have planned a strike for Nov. 29 to coincide with a Fight for $15 nationwide day of protest. The Chicago Tribune reports that Fight for $15 said Monday that it will not back down from activism in the face of Donald Trump’s presidential election and an incoming…

By

Monique Judge

Published

November 21, 2016