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...