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Restaurant Workers Protest Poor Working Conditions And Low Wages
May 13th, 2021 
Awake Goy By Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News. May 13, 2021 Above photo: McDonald’s employees protest outside their workplace on April 9, 2021, in Los Angeles. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images. At McDonald’s, Chipotle, and more amid coronavirus pandemic. “It’s a constant fight to create the conditions that we want.” Food service workers are putting renewed pressure […]
Workers’ Wages Rebound From Pandemics But Not For Blacks
May 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Unemployment Rate Declined in March as Work Returns. While wages for many Americans have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, earnings for Black workers declined in the first quarter of 2021, growing the wage gap to its highest level since before the pandemic, according to a new analysis. In a report of earnings data by the Ludwig […]
The Enormous Impact Of Eroded Collective Bargaining On Wages
April 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Danny Johnston/AP. A major factor depressing wage growth for middle earners and driving the growth of wage inequality over the last four decades has been the erosion of collective bargaining. Indeed, the only factor more responsible for weak wage growth for the typical worker is the excessive unemployment perpetrated by central bank policymakers’ high […]
Increase in NREGA wages once again extremely paltry
March 18th, 2021 Awake Goy The increase in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) wage rates for 2021-22 is extremely paltry (see the table). There is no increase in Kerala’s NREGA wage rate. Rajasthan’s wage rate has increased by just Re 1. In fact, for 24 states, the increase in the NREGA wage rate is less than 5 per […]
Zuckerberg’s FWD.us to Amnesty Advocates: Don’t Talk About Jobs and Wages
March 11th, 2021 Awake Goy Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group is warning Democrat and GOP legislators to ignore jobs and wages when talking to voters about amnesty bills, and to instead tell stories about “family separation.” In a FWD.us-funded polling memo by three Democrat polling companies, the legislators were advised that: It is better to focus on all of the aforementioned sympathetic […]
It’s Time To Make Large Corporations Pay Living Wages
March 1st, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Unionized Amazon workers in the U.K. and across Europe protest pay and working conditions. GMBUnion@Amazon. Landing a job in the ’80s with a large corporation was, even for blue-collar workers, a ticket to good wages, generous benefits and a secure retirement. Women and workers of color did not share fully in this bounty, […]
In Mexico, where real wages since NAFTA was enacted 25 years ago are 40% lower than manufacturing wages in China.
February 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy January 29, 2021 This week, the city of Matamoros, Mexico is again seeing wildcat strikes as expected annual wage increases have been traded away by corrupt unions. Though the revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) includes improved labor rights terms and Mexico enacted significant labor law reforms in 2019 – both of which could help workers […]
Biden Admin Wages War on Free Speech: ‘Social Media Must CENSOR CENSOR CENSOR’
February 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy It’s official – the Biden administration has declared war on the First Amendment and is now asking Big Tech to more radically censor “hate speech” by Conservatives. During a press briefing this week, an anti-Trump reporter asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki if Trump’s absence from social media makes COVID relief negotiations easier. “This […]
Days After Election, Trump Freezes Wages Of Farm Laborers
November 11th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Farm laborers from Fresh Harvest working with an H-2A visa harvest romaine lettuce on a machine with heavy plastic dividers that separate workers from each other on April 27, 2020 in Greenfield, California. Brent Stirton/Getty Images. “Many workers will suffer.” “The Trump administration is trying to get a lot of stuff like this […]
Netanyahu wages a holy war against protests. It’s already claimed the first casualty
September 26th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Views: 0
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No Comments »Amazon Bows To The Unions: New Shifts And Higher Wages
May 26th, 2018 Awake Goy Amazon Bows To The Unions: New Shifts And Higher Wages Above Photo: From Global.ilmanifesto.it Report. Amazon and the trade unions representing its employees in Italy reached a “historic” agreement, signed at the Castel San Giovanni, which was the hub of last year’s Black Friday strike. Seventy percent of workers approved in a referendum. For the first […]
Data Shows Trump Tax Cuts Did Not Raise Wages, Instead Went to Corporate Executives
April 16th, 2018 Awake Goy Once again, President Trump touted the supposed benefits of the new tax law at an April 12 ceremony in the Rose Garden. “Our massive tax cuts are growing paychecks all over our country [and] creating jobs and expanding the American dream just like we said would happen,” he said, in a surprisingly disciplined statement. This declaration — […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: corporate, executives, instead, raise, shows, Trump, wages No Comments »Twitter CEO Wages ‘Bloodless Civil War’ Against Trump Supporters
April 10th, 2018 Awake Goy Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he supports a bloodless civil war against Trump and his supporters, and has vowed to rid them from his platform and from society-at-large. Last week, the San Fransisco-based Twitter boss promoted an article in which a far-left activist outlined a plan to banish Trump-supporting Americans into the annals of history. […]
Posted in World News Tags: against, bloodless, civil, supporters, Trump, Twitter, wages No Comments »The Problem with a State-Cartel Economy: Prices Rise, Wages Don’t
April 3rd, 2018 Awake Goy By Charles Hugh Smith The vise will tighten until something breaks. It could be the currency, it could be the political status quo, it could be the credit/debt system–or all three. The problem with an economy dominated by state-enforced cartels and quasi-monopolies is that prices rise (since cartels can push higher costs onto […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: cartel, economy, prices, problem, state, wages No Comments »Disney Unions’ Ballot Drive Seeks To Raise Wages Up To $18 An Hour For Hospitality Companies That Take Anaheim Subsidies
March 8th, 2018 Awake Goy Disney Unions’ Ballot Drive Seeks To Raise Wages Up To $18 An Hour For Hospitality Companies That Take Anaheim Subsidies Above Photo: Hundreds of Disneyland workers came to a town hall sponsored by a coalition of Disney Resort labor unions at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Anaheim on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. (Photo by Kevin […]
Sessions Wages War on Natural Weed, As He Grants Maker of Fentanyl a Monopoly on Synthetic THC
January 8th, 2018 Awake Goy Renegade Editor’s Note: Regardless of what you think about cannabis and its legalization, this move should be infuriating to any sane person. By Matt Agorist Instead of going after criminals in the government or making an attempt to thwart corruption, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made his mission clear this week—he intends to crucify those who dare […]
Posted in World News Tags: fentanyl, Grants, maker, monopoly, natural, sessions, wages No Comments »The Real Reason Wages Have Stagnated: Our Economy Is Optimized For Financialization
September 9th, 2017 Awake Goy Labor’s share of the national income is in freefall as a direct result of the optimization of financialization. The Achilles Heel of our socio-economic system is the secular stagnation of earned income, i.e. wages and salaries. Stagnating wages undermine every aspect of our economy: consumption, credit, taxation and perhaps most importantly, the unspoken […]
Posted in World News Tags: economy, financialization, optimized, reason, stagnated, wages No Comments »Ending DACA Lowers Wages And Tax Revenue, And Degrades Labor Standards
September 7th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times/MCT Tuesday morning Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration will “wind down,” and in six months, end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a Department of Homeland Security initiative put in place in 2012 that temporarily deferred the deportation of approximately 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the United […]
Why We’re Doomed: Stagnant Wages
September 3rd, 2017 Awake Goy The point is the present system cannot endure. Despite all the happy talk about “recovery” and higher growth, wages have gone nowhere since 2000–and for the bottom 20% of workers, they’ve gone nowhere since the 1970s. Gross domestic product (GDP) has risen smartly since 2000, but the share of GDP going […]
