Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/11/)
More than 3,000 nurses and activists gathered at Daley Plaza to rock out with musician Tom Morello and call for a tax on financial speculation — a Robin Hood tax. This small sales tax on Wall Street trades could raise up to $350 billion a year to fund health care and other needs.
A raise in the minimum wage, seven days of paid sick leave and creation of a national infrastructure investment program are a few highlights of a comprehensive 330-page jobs bill two House Democrats introduced in mid-May.
Thousands of Minnesotans are taking part in a “99% Week of Action” that will culminate with a rally and march Friday in downtown Minneapolis. The chief targets of the demonstrators are major banks, including US Bank and Wells Fargo.
Buoyed by a rally that featured former Minnesota Vikings running back Chuck Foreman, union members plan to jam the state Capitol Monday as legislators decide whether to fund stadium and bonding bills that would create thousands of jobs.
Union members swarmed the Minnesota Capitol in a last-ditch effort to drum up support among lawmakers for two bills that, together, would create tens of thousands of jobs for union members in the struggling construction trades.
The Republican proposal to cut state business taxes will fatten corporate profits but do nothing to boost job prospects for the unemployed, the executive director of Minnesota Citizens for Tax Justice predicted.
Minnesotans were among a crowd of more than 1,000 that nearly shut down the annual meeting of Wells Fargo & Co. to challenge the bank’s high pay for its executives while it continues to foreclose on homeowners.
Governor Mark Dayton received a standing ovation during a visit Saturday to the annual “Fun(d)raiser” for the Minnesota State Retiree Council, AFL-CIO, where he emphasized the need to build a new Minnesota Vikings stadium.
Fifty years after President John F. Kennedy signed a law pushing equal pay for equal work, the pay gap between working men and women remains wide, studies show. And for minorities, it’s a chasm.
The national AFL-CIO has launched the 2012 AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch site — called CEO Pay and the 99% — which includes the most comprehensive data accessible on 2011 executive pay. All of the data available is searchable by industry, by state and by the top 100 highest-paid CEOs.