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Wage Hike not Good Enough When the Goal Is a Union

Anti-Corporate Campaigns, Center for Union Facts, front group, OUR Walmart, UFCW, Worker Centers, Workers Center

Earlier this week, Wal-Mart issued a directive raising base pay at the company’s stores to $9 per hour for new hires and $10 per hour for current employees. If the complaints of the “Organization United for Respect At Walmart” (OUR Walmart) were really about the company’s pay being too low, you might expect at least […]

An NPR ‘Miss’ On Labor Unions and the Minimum Wage

AFL-CIO, Anti-Corporate Campaigns, Center for Union Facts, Fast Food Forward, minimum wage, Political Money, SEIU, Union Spending, Worker Centers, Workers Center

A recent National Public Radio (NPR) report looked curiously at the phenomenon of unions pushing for radical minimum wage increases (including in some cases a more-than-doubling of the current minimums). Correspondent Ben Bergman notes that few workers who make the minimum are unionized, and he asks what unions stand to gain from their campaigns. We […]