Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/policy/page/5/)
An amendment adopted by the House Ways and Means Committee stirred up new debate to the already controversial minimum wage bill, giving House Republicans more reasons for opposing it as the bill heads to the House Floor.
Fifty years after Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, women still make less than men. Except in Minnesota. For public employees, there is no pay gap. It didn’t happen by accident.
For women who got pay equity raises, it made a huge difference – then and now.
Despite its achievements, pay equity didn’t accomplish everything supporters expected.
How large is the pay gap between America’s CEOs and the rest of us? Try this: The “median” CEO earns the equivalent of your yearly pay, every day.
The state legislator spending a week on minimum wage met Thursday with three Minnesotans for whom the minimum-wage challenge is an everyday reality.
UNITE HERE Local 17 urges immediate phone calls and e-mails to help save the jobs of four longtime cafeteria workers at the BAE plant in Fridley.
Peanut butter or jelly? Juice or coffee? Dry spaghetti or ravioli in a can? Those aren’t decisions Rep. Jason Metsa usually wrestles with in the grocery store, but the Iron Range DFLer is tightening his belt this week after signing a pledge to live on Minnesota’s minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for five days.
As legislation to raise the minimum wage to $9.95 makes its way through the Minnesota Legislature, Rep. Jason Metsa, DFL-Virginia, is taking up Working America’s challenge to live on Minnesota’s current minimum wage for five days.
Union members organized by the AFL-CIO participated in a Working Families Day on the Hill Monday at the state Capitol and urged lawmakers to adopt Governor Mark Dayton’s jobs and infrastructure bonding proposal.