January 3, 2014

SeaTac Minimum Wage Hike Goes into Effect, Yet Many Are Left Out

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage / By max cyril

Yesterday, workers at large hotels and car services outside the SeaTac International Airport, just south of Seattle, became eligible for a wage increase to $15 an hour after a groundbreaking ballot initiative to significantly raise the minimum wage passed last November. A judge in the King County Superior Court last week suspended the part of the law that would cover 4,700 people …

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The U.S. Government Uses Sweatshops, Too

Leave a Comment / Government Contractors / By max cyril

The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Bangladesh last April exposed the cruel link between abusive Global South factories and the Western brands they supply. But while consumers may have been shocked to learn of the Gap or Benetton‘s latest designs strewn amid the wreckage of “death trap” factories, they might have missed another bit of …

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January 3, 2014

SeaTac Minimum Wage Hike Goes into Effect, Yet Many Are Left Out

The U.S. Government Uses Sweatshops, Too

U.S. Supreme Court Accepts Cert in Dudenhoeffer ERISA Moench Presumption of Prudence Case

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