Headlines
- 06/23/10 - U.S. Cracks Down on Farmers Who Hire Children
- 05/21/10 - Warehousing Gets Lean and Mean
- 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
- 11/11/09 - How the 40 Year Drop in the Minimum Wage Helped Cause Obesity
- 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
- 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?
- 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
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The GNA Platform
Press the politicians
to support:
- A repeal of NAFTA and GATT, so that Fair Trade, environmental sustainability, and a living wage for all become the foundation of our trade policies.
- Federal legislation, such as the Employee Free Choice Act, guaranteeing that when the majority of workers in a sizeable workplace sign union cards, the employer would be required to enter into a collective bargaining process with the workers.
- An increase in the Federal Minimum Wage to $8.50 an hour, in line with the minimum wage in Canada and Europe.
- A substantial increase in taxes on large corporations and the richest one percent of Americans (with yearly incomes averaging $1.3 million) to pay for universal health care, subsidized childcare, and free tuition for public colleges and universities.
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Resources
- Jared
Bernstein Testimony
Testimony from an economist from the Economic Policy Institute arguing for the correlation between a livable minimum wage and a reduction in poverty. - Fair
Wages & Homelessness
Policy Statements
Put together by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, this document lists the justification for minimum wage increases and the specific economic policy changes that could bring them about. - The
Fight for the
Minimum Wage
This story follows this minimum-wage increasing laws passed in 2006, and the subsequent "gutting" of these laws that took place by lobbyists and legislators.
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