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Thousands of University of California employees ON STRIKE on Tuesday.
Host a union-made Memorial Day barbecue this year! Find more union-made bbq goodies here athttp://aflcio.org/unionmadememorialday andwww.labor411.org
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Thanks to the awesome members of the UFCW who bring us nutritious dairy products every day! Next time you pick up a gallon of milk, choose union-made and help support good middle class jobs!
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Apple CEO Tim Cook went to Congress today to get grilled about the billions Apple is hiding in offshore accounts so it can avoid paying its fair share of taxes.
Learn more: http://americansfortaxfairness.org/badapple
From our friends at Americans for Tax Fairness
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We already knew that the general concept of a minimum wage increase was popular with Minnesota, with 70 percent saying they support an increase without mentioning a number. But new polling shows that a substantive increase – one that would give Minnesota one of the country’s highest minimum wages – also has a majority behind it.
Public Policy Polling, which independent studies have shown to be one of the most accurate pollsters in the country, asked Minnesotans about minimum wage along with a battery of other issues. The question “Would you support or oppose raising the minimum wage to $9.50 per hour?” received 54 percent supporting, 37 percent opposing, and 10 percent undecided.
To put that in perspective, that large minimum wage increase was more popular with those surveyed than Gov. Dayton (49 percent approval), DFL legislators (36 percent), Republican legislators (23 percent), and using money from the cigarette tax to pay for the new Vikings stadium (35 percent).
In fact, the only question that unified Minnesotans more than raising the minimum wage was allowing liquor sales on Sunday (62 percent).
The increase also receives support from:
- 58 percent of self-identified moderates.
- 24 percent of those identifying as “very conservative.”
- 59 percent of women.
- 45 percent of independents.
- 29 percent of Republicans.
- 61 percent of 18 to 29 year-olds and 51 percent of those older than 65.
The Minnesota House passed a bill earlier this month raising the minimum wage to $9.50 by 2015 and indexing it to inflation, but the bill did not receive a full vote in the Senate before the end of session. The Senate passed its own version, which raised the wage to a meager $7.75 and ignored the question of inflation.
These numbers show what many Working America members already know: that fighting to put more money in the pockets of workers has support across the ideological and partisan spectrum, and that pursuing policies that raise wages can only help, not hurt, an elected official’s standing with the public.
The issue of raising the minimum wage can next be brought up in Minnesota in February 2014.
It’s EMS Week and we want to spread the love to all the EMTs and Paramedics and Emergency Nurses that serve our communities every day.
Bruce Plante has got it right about teachers.
Exeter School Board Attempt To Use Corporate Tactic To Rob Workers Of Their Pensions
This week the Exeter School Board met to discuss options for reducing the budget for next year.…
