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Major Union Behind The $15 An Hour Campaign Slashes 2018 Budget By 30%, Blames The 'Far Right'
Tuesday, December 27, 2016 - 9:27am | 416The Service Employees International Union isn't looking forward to a bright 2017 and beyond. The massive union represents around two million government, health care and building-services workers. It is behind a push for a $15 an hour minimum wage. In an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg...
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Taxpayers Foot $1.2 Billion Public Assistance Bill for McDonald's Employees
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 6:45am | 675Each year, U.S. taxpayers pay out $1.2 billion in public assistance to workers at McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), according to a study released Tuesday by the National Employment Law Project. The NELP study used data from another one conducted by economists at the University of California-Berkeley and...