Tag: $15 minimum wage
BJC HealthCare, Mercy speed move to $15 minimum wage
BJC HealthCare and Mercy have accelerated plans to increase their minimum pay to $15 an hour as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, fueled by...
Health care workers call for protections, $15 minimum wage after a...
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
SEIU Healthcare, Missouri’s largest health care workers union, has unveiled a slate of policy reforms aimed at addressing issues highlighted by...
Pritzker signs $15 minimum wage into law
Youth and tipped worker wages going up, too
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Springfield, IL – Workers throughout Illinois cheered recently when Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the...
Into our own hands: ‘Real social and economic progress is possible...
Trenton, N.J. (AFL-CIO Labor Wire) – Over the past year, New Jersey has been paving a path toward a fairer, more just future. From...
Illinois approves raising minimum wage to $15
Increase will be phased-in over six years
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Springfield, IL – It was kind of predictable. The Illinois Legislature has approved the first increase...
Illinois Legislature approves $15 an hour minimum wage
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondant
Springfield, IL – The Illinois House of Representatives and Senate has approved a plan to raise the state minimum wage in...
Push is on for $15 minimum wage in Illinois
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Corresponndent
East St. Louis – A $15 minimum hourly wage in Illinois wouldn’t just help the working-class people who would receive it, but...