(APN) ATLANTA — A packed room spilled out into the hallway during a hearing on several minimum wage bills Thursday, February 11, 2016. “We got an extensive list of folks signed up… If [the committee] drop[s] below six, we can’t do anything. So just keep that in mind,” Chairmen Charlie Bethel (R – Dalton) reiterated multiple times during the […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — Merit pay for teachers, contract workers, minimum wage, and sick leave are all issues that labor groups will be working on during 2016 while the legislature is in session. Mayor of Clarkston Ted Terry, who also serves as the State Campaign Director of Georgia chapter of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), spoke […]
Read moreBy Anna Simonton, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA — Ten fast food workers were arrested on Thursday, September 04, 2014, after blocking one lane of traffic on Ponce de Leon Avenue, near Boulevard, in an act of civil disobedience. The action was intended to pressure their employers to pay a living wage and allow workers to […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Some Atlanta fast-food workers who added their voices to a strike for a 15 dollars per hour wage, and the right to form a union without retaliation, that swept 150 U.S. cities–with counterpart protests in 33 countries worldwide–on May 15, 2014, are now experiencing first-hand just what that retaliation looks like. The local day of action, led […]
Read moreBy Cheryl Courtney-Evans, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News. Photograph courtesy of Americans United for Change. (APN) ATLANTA — During a noontime vote in the U.S. Senate yesterday, Wednesday, April 30, 2014, a vast majority of Senate Republicans blocked the opportunity for the Senate to vote on an increase in the minimum wage of U.S. workers from $7.25 per […]
Read moreThis article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website here: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/05/despite-push-by-obama-minimum-wage-hike-plan-stagnating/ ATLANTA, Georgia, May 29 2013 (IPS) – During his State of the Union address earlier this year, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke about the need to increase the federal minimum wage, which Congress has not voted to raise since 2007. But while several legislative proposals have been introduced to raise […]
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