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Tag Archives: Living wage
Revolt and retrogression at home
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2014-2015: From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy. II. Revolt and retrogression at home. A. Women under attack. B. Many dimensions of revolt Continue reading
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Tagged abortion access, Affordable Care Act, African Americans, birth control, Charles Murray, Chicago, clinic escorts, Coming out of the Shadows, Contraception, criminal injustice system, domestic violence, feminism, Florida, food stamps, Health care, immigrant workers, International Women's Day, Kyle Tasker, labor, Living wage, low-wage workers, Marissa Alexander, Medicaid, Minimum wage, Moral Mondays, Paul Ryan, poverty, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, sexism, South Carolina, Truthful Tuesdays, undocumented workers, United States, women's liberation
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‘We can’t survive on $7.25’
NY rally demands $15 minimum wage, fast-food workers’ right to organize a union without fear of being fired. Continue reading
Prison privatization is a crime
On Dec. 1, Aramark Correctional Services will begin running Food Service for the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), creating another sector of low-wage workers in Michigan. In a state struggling with a high unemployment rate and flooded with low-wage dead-end jobs, 60,000 in the fast-food sector in the metro Detroit area alone, why would the state government choose to add to these statistics? Continue reading
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Tagged Aramark Correctional Services, CMS, Corizon Inc., Correctional Medical Services Inc., criminal injustice system, fast food workers, healthcare, Jennifer Granholm, Keefe Commissary Network, Living wage, low-wage workers, MDOC, Michael McCabe, Michigan Department of Corrections, Oakland County Jail, PHS, Prison Health Services Inc., prison industrial complex, Prison Legal News, prisoners, privatization
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Lift campus wages!
From the new issue of NEWS & LETTERS, May-June 2011: Lift campus wages! Memphis, Tenn.–On April 8, over 75 students, faculty, and staff members of the University of Memphis came out in support of a living wage for campus workers. … Continue reading
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Tagged Colleges and Universities, education, faculty, labor, Laborer, Living wage, students, teachers, United States, University of Memphis, Wage, workers
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