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The House passed a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour in a win for labor and living wage activists who have fought hard to give low-wage workers a raise. The Democratic-held chamber passed the plan in a 231-199 vote. Six Democrats opposed it, while three Republicans supported it. The measure would gradually hike the U.S. minimum wage to $15 by 2025, then index further hikes to median wage growth. It would also...

19 July, 2019

The AFL-CIO released its annual Executive Paywatch report today, detailing how the gap between CEO and worker pay continues to grow. โ€œOur economy works best when consumers have money to spend. That means raising wages for workers and reining in out of control executive pay. This yearโ€™s report is a stark reminder that working people must use our collective voice to form bigger, stronger unions and rewrite the economic rules once and for all.โ€ โ€”AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer...

25 June, 2019

Today, Sen.ย Bernie Sandersย (I-Vt.) announced new legislation,ย The Workplace Democracy Act. What would this legislation do? END Right-to-Work-for-Less ALLOW unions to be formed through majority sign-up STOP companies from denying a first contract for new union workers EXPOSE third-party firms hired to run anti-union campaigns. Senator Sanders on the Workplace Democracy Act: "Under our legislation when a majority of workers sign cards to join a union they will have that union, end of discussion. We are sick and tired of...

09 May, 2018

A coalition of 11 Disneyland unions is calling on the Anaheim, Calif. resort to raise its base wage to $20 an hour after a survey of 5,000 workers found many were hard-pressed to pay for food and medical expenses and 11 percent said they experienced homelessness in the past two years. According to a 125-page report “Working for the Mouse,” , federal census and economic data show the average hourly wage for Disneyland resort workers dropped to...

28 February, 2018

GOP politicians are fighting hard to pass a deficit-exploding tax bill that would kill jobs, take away health insurance, raise taxes on working families and much worse, all for a massive giveaway to powerful corporations and the rich. Our leaders should fight for working families and our communities instead. President Donald Trump and the GOP are hustling for a tax plan that would change American life in terrible ways by cutting services, killing American manufacturing, weakening...

01 December, 2017

When President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act on June 10, 1963, women made only 60 cents on the dollar for doing the same job as a man. The gap has narrowed in the intervening years, but pay is not yet equal and wages have been held down for women and men alike. We must erase the wage gap by raising pay for all working people. Lift All for Equality The pay gap narrows when...

09 June, 2017

Yesterday, working people who have been employed by fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder shared their stories with Senate Democrats. They made it clear why Puzder is being called the #AntiLaborSecretary. Gathered by the AFL-CIO, here are some of the key tweets that captured the hearings. Meanwhile, read aboutย Puzder's Record Defined by Fighting Against Working People ...

12 January, 2017

Donald Trumpโ€™s nominee for secretary of laborโ€”fast food CEO Andrew Puzderโ€”would be a disaster for working Americans. Heโ€™s railed against a meaningful increase in the minimum wage, opposed expanding overtime pay and supported replacing working people with machines. Sign the AFL-CIO's petition immediately to tell your members of Congress to oppose him.ย  There were many signs that President-elect Donald Trump would be a disaster for working families, but his choice for secretary of laborโ€”fast food CEO Andrew...

21 December, 2016

"In the United States, our child care system is failing and this has hidden costs for working families. The typical annual cost for child care for a family with two children (an infant and a four-year-old) is nearly $18,000. That averages to about 30% of the typical working family's paycheck. This cost is so high that many can't afford it and leave the workforce altogether, with 75% of mothers and 50% of fathers in a...

27 June, 2016

12.5 Million Americans: the number of people that the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimates will be effected by President Obamaโ€™s changes to the overtime rule. Under the direction of President Obama, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will update the threshold for salaried workers who automatically qualify for overtime when they work more than 40 hours a week. โ€œWeโ€™re making more workers eligible for the overtime that youโ€™ve earned. And itโ€™s one of the single most important...

18 May, 2016

Americaโ€™s economy has swung out of balance. Itโ€™s getting harder to get by, let alone get ahead. Everyday Americans are working more than ever before. Our work has created record wealth for an economic recovery thatโ€™s been everywhere but ordinary peoplesโ€™ wallets. Our economic rules unfairly favor corporate CEOs and the rich because they manipulate the rules in their favor. Almost no one stands up for average Americans these days,ย and now there is a Supreme Court...

06 January, 2016

According to a recent blog piece by The Atlantic, ย laws raising the minimum wage in 12 states wentย into effect on January 1st. Additionally, the minimum wage in Maryland and Washington D.C. will go up in July, andย inflation adjustments will be made to raise the minimum wage in Colorado and South Dakota. A handful of cities and counties, including New York, will also see minimum-wage increases. Efforts to raise the minimum wage paid off in 2015, and as...

04 January, 2016

A new Gallup poll released this week shows that public approval of unions has risen by five percentage points over the past year, reaching 58% positive, the highest point since a 59% approval rating in 2008 and significantly higher than the all-time low of 48% approval recorded in 2009....

28 August, 2015

FACT:ย In January 2014, 13 states raised their minimum wage;ย since thenย these states added more jobs and have lower unemployment rates than the 36 states that did not raise the minimum wage. FACT:ย The U.S.ย Government could save $7 billion dollars if companies just paid employees a higher minimum wage.* FACT:ย Federal minimum wage is $7.25ย โ€“ย and some states actually have a lower state wage of $6.25 an hour. How can anyone, alone or with a family, survive on minimum wage? FACT:ย Theyย canโ€™t. But together we are...

21 October, 2014