Minimum Wage Reform 2008 News Archives

2008 Headlines:

• 12/02/09 - The Sustainable Local Food Movement Needs to Include Labor and Poor People
• 11/26/09 - Which Side Are You On? Organizing Labor in America
• 11/04/09 - Cutting the Global Economy Down to Size: The Nature of Work and the Green-Collar Workforce
• 09/15/09 - Large Florida Grower Steps up for Farm Workers
• 08/29/09 - CA Employee Free Choice Act for Farm Workers Goes to Governor
• 08/25/09 - Unions Target Whole Foods CEO Over Health Piece
• 08/24/09 - Whole Foods Opposing Employee Free Choice
• 07/30/09 - Stop Walmart's War on Free Speech: Don't Let Bentonville Use Frivolous Lawsuits to Stifle its Critics
• 06/24/09 - Over 25,000 Letters Sent Urging No New Wal-Mart Stores Until EFCA Passes
• 05/20/09 - What Do Starbucks and Wal-Mart Have in Common?
• 05/19/09 - Coming Soon: The Truth About Starbucks
• 04/28/09 - Missouri and Florida Legislatures Endorse Measures that Would Negate EFCA
• 04/24/09 - Video: Our Chance to Change Walmart
• 04/16/09 - Employee Free Choice Will Allow America's Workers to Drive Economic Recovery
• 04/09/09 - Starbucks and Whole Foods Pay Lip Service to Fair Trade while Preventing Their Workers from Forming Unions
• 03/03/09 - The Employee Free Choice Act: An Integral Component of a Sustainable Food System
• 03/03/09 - Let Workers Choose When to Form Unions
• 03/03/09 - Memo To Business: Only Unions Will Save Your Bottom Line
• 03/03/09 - The EFCA Battle is Joined
• 03/03/09 - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Backs Employee Free Choice Act
• 03/03/09 - Employee Free Choice Act and the Lesson of Smithfield Packing
• 02/11/09 - Tell Your Elected Officials How to Create Good, Green Jobs
• 02/10/09 - Organic Consumers and the Labor Movement
• 01/09/09 - Employee Free Choice Act Is Under Heavy Attack
• 05/09/08 - Always the Low Paycheck!
• 04/01/08 - Day of Celebration Honors Cesar Chavez
• 03/27/08 - From Macro to Micro, Fair Food Allies Stepping Up!
• 03/20/08 - Union Negotiations with Major Grocers Giant and Safeway Take Time
• 02/08/08 - Bush Proposes to Drive Down the Already Low Wages of Farmworkers
• 01/29/08 - Proposal Seeks a Break for Low-Wage Workers
• 01/28/08 - Why The Right Loves A Disaster--Including the Current Economic Recession
• 01/22/08 - U.S. Senators Call for Pay Increase for Tomato Pickers & Other Farmworkers
• 01/07/08 - Progressive States Network Lists Progress on Wage Standards and Workplace Freedom
• 01/06/08 - Report Says That the Rich Are Getting Richer Faster, Much Faster
• 01/14/09 - Union Digs in Heels in Looming Retail Food Fight with Wal-Mart Canada
• 12/07/08 - Wage Slavery, American Style, Must Go!
• 11/20/08 - The Fight to Pass the Employee Free Choice Act
• 11/07/08 - Big Business Prepares for a Less Friendly Washington
• 10/27/08 - Drug Policy Reform: Take the Handcuffs Off the Economic Recovery
• 09/23/08 - Promoting Wage Enforcement Laws as an Alternative to Anti-Immigrant Proposals
• 09/17/08 - Restoring Democracy in America's Workplace
• 09/16/08 - Wal-Mart's Labor Problem
• 09/08/08 - Employee Free Choice Act: David May Talk, Goliath May Walk
• 08/26/08 - Half of All Food Produced Worldwide is Wasted
• 07/24/08 - Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Minimum Wage Hike Long Overdue
• 07/04/08 - Wal-Mart Defender To Direct Obama's Economic Policy
• 12/27/07 - New Laws Will Impact California Farmers on January 1
• 12/24/07 - San Francisco to Raise Minimum Wage to $9.36 Per Hour
• 12/23/07 - Federal Wage Hearing To Be Held In American Samoa
• 12/22/07 - Minimum Wage Hike Proposed for N.J.
• 12/20/07 - CVS to Pay $226,598 for Labor Violations at 43 stores
• 12/20/07 - White House Applauds Tax Plan for Middle Class; Democrats Unhappy
• 12/13/07 - Report Shows KS Minimum Wage Increase Would be Positive Change
• 12/12/07 - A $10 Minimum Wage At Wal-Mart? Better Wish For Two Front Teeth
• 12/06/07 - New Study: Wal-Mart Could Raise Wages with Minimal Impact on Shoppers
• 08/07/07 - So-Called Liberal Ideas in U.S. Are Conservative by European Standards
• 11/09/06 - Voters Pass Increases in Minimum Wage in Six States
• 11/07/06 - State Ballot Initiatives Motivating Voters--88% of Americans Support Raising Minimum Wage
• 07/28/06 - Chicago Orders Wal-Mart & 'Big Box' Stores to Raise Minimum Wage to $10 Hour by 2010
• 11/11/09 - How the 40 Year Drop in the Minimum Wage Helped Cause Obesity
• 09/09/09 - ‘Time’ Was Right About Cheap Food - But Forgot Farmworkers
• 09/07/09 - Pace of Change Under Obama Frustrates Unions
• 09/03/09 - There Are Really Two Questions: Which Side Are the Democrats On? and Which Side Are the Labor Unions On?
• 03/29/09 - Wal-Mart Forced to Bargain, Finally, With Texas Meat Cutters
• 03/28/09 - Labor-Enviro Alliance Urges Climate Law in 2009
• 03/20/09 - Walmart Gives Bonuses to Hourly Employees But Refuses to Increase Their Wages
• 03/12/09 - The Employee Free Choice Act 101
• 03/10/09 - The Employee Free Choice Act - Ending the Banana Republic Dictatorship Called Work
• 02/26/09 - Prominent Economists Endorse Employee Free Choice Act
• 02/23/09 - No Solar Sweatshops or Wal-Mart Windmills
• 01/15/09 - Minnesota to Get $14 Million from Wal-Mart Settlement
• 01/14/09 - Unions Need Unity