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L.A. to Weigh Citywide Wage Hike
The recent Los Angeles City Council vote to raise hourly pay for 10,000 hotel workers to $15.37 could be part of an historic groundswell to create a new minimum wage across Los Angeles and beyond. The...
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A Movement Raises the Minimum Wage and Changes the Debate
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray used last May Day to announce that business and labor had agreed to a historic plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Seattle’s bold measure is part of a growing wave...
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Bay Area Cities Set Sights on Raising Their Minimum Wage
John Jones III and son Kai OAKLAND – The growing nationwide movement by cities and counties to raise the minimum wage is currently centered here in the Bay Area, and its success couldn’t be more urgent...
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The Minimum Wage: A New Deal for Los Angeles Workers?
If you watched the Roosevelt series on PBS, as I did, you might have been struck by how Teddy and FDR saw their presidential duties. Both acted on the belief that the role of the federal government...
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The Roots of Economic Justice
With Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and six city council members proposing an increase in the minimum wage, the issue sits firmly on the front burner of L.A. government. Of course the Chamber of...
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Citywide Wage Hike Gets First Council Hearing
City Council Photo: Joe Rihn Los Angeles City Council members convened Tuesday for an Economic Development Committee hearing on a motion that would raise the minimum wage for workers in the City of Los...
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Big Bay Area Victories for Living Wages
On Tuesday San Francisco voters approved by a 77 to 23 percent margin Proposition J, which will increase the city’s minimum wage from the current $10.74 per hour to $12.25 per hour by May 1, 2015. The...
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Golden Road or Low Road?
Unlike restaurant menus, community and democracy don’t work “à la carte.” We do not get to pick the laws we want to follow. The owners of Los Angeles’ trendy Golden Road Brewing seem not to understand...
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Walking With the Poor
Photo by Pedro Ribeiro Simões “The poor you have with you always.” Jesus of Nazareth is said to have spoken these words in three of the four Gospels. But he certainly didn’t mean that his followers...
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Actor’s Dilemma: Minimum Wage or Stipends?
Center: Actors Frances Fisher and French Stewart A dispute between Los Angeles theater actors and their national union, Actors Equity Association (AEA), went public Monday when an estimated 400...
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Change Is Never Easy: An Interview With Roy Choi
Los Angeles chef Roy Choi helped unleash the food truck movement with his Kogi taco truck. In the process an informal social culture sprang up, one built around healthy, affordable food. In this...
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Will a New California Bill Trump Minimum Wage Ordinances?
California is one of only seven states that pays tipped workers their state’s minimum wage instead of the penurious $2.13 (the federal minimum) to $5 range. California’s wait staff and other service...
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Minimum Wage Protests Planned for April 15
As President Obama’s efforts to nudge the U.S. minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour continue to be rebuffed by a Republican Congress, a national coalition of low-wage fast-food and retail workers...
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Scenes from L.A.’s ‘Fight for $15′
About one thousand Angelenos marched and rallied for a $15 minimum wage near downtown Los Angeles Wednesday. While several protests occurred at fast-food outlets and other locations across the city...
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Emeryville Joins Movement to Raise Minimum Wage
Emeryville Town Hall, scene of city council’s May 5 vote. Emeryville, California is more than a brief Amtrak stop across the bay from San Francisco. On Tuesday evening all five Emeryville City...
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The Wage War’s Two Fronts
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 to adopt a citywide minimum wage of $15/hour by 2020. The next day, marching behind a giant banner that read, “McDonald’s: $15 and Union Rights, Not...
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L.A. Times Calls Out Fight for $15 Guy, Gets It All Wrong
A recent L.A. Times story profiled a fast-food worker who, according to reporter Don Lee, would lose eligibility for Medicaid if his wages were raised to $15. His wage gains could be “wiped out” by...
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Not Debatable: Minimum Wage Movement Gains Ground
Last night’s Republican debate got underway following a day of national demonstrations in favor of raising the American minimum wage to $15 an hour — a day of protest accompanied by nothing-to-lose...
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Saturday Rally Targets Pasadena Minimum Wage
If you would like to help lift thousands of Pasadena families out of poverty, please join us on Saturday as we march to urge Pasadena’s mayor and city council to adopt a $15/hour minimum wage...
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Pasadena Wage Raise Gathers Steam
Pasadena, California — home of the annual Tournament of Roses parade and the Rose Bowl football game — is known as the City of Roses. But a broad coalition of low-income workers, middle class...
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