by Dave Johnson | Jan 28, 2014 | Blog
President Obama will announce tonight that he is delivering a big raise to more than a million low-wage employees of federal contractors. He is issuing an executive order that will require workers under new contracts to be paid a minimum of $10.10 an hour (or higher...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 28, 2014 | Blog
You hear often that we "live in a global world now." You hear that "globalization" means we have to drop our wages and standards to match those in impoverished, Third-World countries. You hear that the "cost" of controlling pollution makes us uncompetitive in the...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 27, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Today 564 organizations released a joint letter to Congress, opposing fast-track trade promotion authority. The organizations cover the entire field of what would be considered President Obama's "base" of supporters, including consumer, labor, environmental,...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 27, 2014 | Minimum Wage
This post originally appeared at AlterNet. If the 1968 federal minimum wage had kept pace with inflation it would be $10.75 today. But it is only $7.25, an amount so low that many full-time workers need such government assistance as food stamps and Medicare just to...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog
Republicans voted for a budget that caved in to many of their economy-sabotaging, hostage-ransom austerity demands. Now the "debt ceiling" has to be raised in February so the government can pay for that budget that Republicans voted for. Republicans are saying no way...
