Senate Passes Minimum-Wage Raise
U.S. Senate approves $2.10 minimum-wage raise, first increase in more than nine years.
"...Yee haw! The U.S. Senate approved a $2.10 minimum-wage raise Thursday, Feb. 1, the first increase in the..."
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Feb. 2, 2007 News Post by Cheryl Smith
Hope on Minimum-Wage Horizon
Serious state and federal efforts under way to pass legislation that would raise minimum wage, stuck more than nine years at a pathetic $5.15 an hour
"...federal level to pass legislation that would raise the minimum wage, stuck for more than nine years at a..."
Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
Bucks for Bullets: Federal minimum-wage raise approved
When Congress passed Iraq war spending bill last Thursday, it approved a raise in federal minimum wage for first time in a decade
"...24, it also approved a raise in the federal minimum wage for the first time in about a decade...."
June 1, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
Days of Our Minimum-Wage Workers' Lives
'The hour glass is running out of sand' in dramatic struggle to raise minimum wage for first time in more than nine years
"...through the hourglass, so are the days of our minimum-wage workers' lives...."
April 27, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
Minimum-Wage Delays
Republican pork tax breaks are holding up the much ballyhooed minimum-wage raises Democrats promised
"...Why haven't competing versions of U.S. House and Senate minimum-wage legislation made it yet to conference committee for debate..."
March 9, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
Minimum Wage Murmurs
Hundreds of economists sign on to "manifesto" urging Congress and state policymakers to raise the minimum wage, an act of defiance that is apparently generating some disconcerted murmurs
"...surrendered to those pesky calls to raise the federal minimum wage. If you can hang on for six more..."
Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature
Minimum Wage Woes
In failing to pass bill that would have led to federal minimum wage raise, Congress fails workers
"...led to a $2.10 hourly raise in the federal minimum wage, making it nearly nine years since an increase..."
July 14, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
More Minimum Wage Woes
We have less than four months to go to beat our national minimum wage stagnation record, and we're doing great!
"...led to a $2.10 hourly raise in the federal minimum wage, which has remained unchanged for nearly nine years,..."
Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
“Minimum Wage Is Not Livable”
Workers get paid, but the fight for fair wages is far from over
"...been resolved. Popeyes workers received the week's worth of wages that had eluded them for more than two weeks..."
Dec. 16, 2016 News Feature by Jack Craver
Minimum Wage: Keepin' 'Em Down
"...and all bills proposing to raise the state hourly minimum wage, stuck for more than nine years at a..."
May 11, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
Austin Extends Living Wage
$13.03 floor now applies to more workers on city-funded projects
"...Two loopholes in the city’s living wage policy were closed during yesterday’s City Council meeting...."
March 25, 2016 News Post by Amy Kamp
It's a Wage Shortage – Not a Labor Shortage – and It Disproportionately Affects Women and Persons of Color
It's a complicated economic situation, but one easy solution is increasing pay for restaurant workers
"...search engine, the revved up reckoning of labor and wages in the United States' massive hospitality industry is glaringly..."
May 28, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape
City Base Wage Jumps to $20/Hour for Next Fiscal Year
Council approves increase for city workers
"...a month ago was to further increase the base wage offered to city workers. Cronk's budget would have boosted..."
Aug. 26, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders
From Low Wage to No Wage
Two class action lawsuits target wage theft
"...to mark the National Day of Action to Stop Wage Theft, the Equal Justice Center and the University of..."
Dec. 3, 2010 News Feature by Michael King
Sick Leave: A Wage by Any Other Name?
Texas 3rd Court of Appeals strikes down Austin's ordinance
"...rights ordinance violated the state constitution and the Texas Minimum Wage Act, which bars cities from increasing wages beyond..."
Nov. 23, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Then There's This: 'A Decent Wage'
Pay Requirement may be inked into city incentive deals
"...require companies to pay employees and construction workers a minimum wage of $11 an hour, with construction workers eligible..."
Oct. 25, 2013 News Column
It Is Not Un-American to Demand a Decent Wage
"...Dear Editor, I suggest Vance McDonald (against the minimum wage) [“Postmarks,” June 8] check the results of Washington..."
June 12, 2007 Postmarks
Austin Tries to Address Wage Theft, Texas Tries to Make It Harder
Is your boss stealing from you?
"...other labor organizations celebrated the passage of Austin's first wage theft prevention ordinance, the third in Texas following Houston..."
April 28, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher
The Prevailing Wage Guessing Game
Trustees worry that doing the right thing might cause bond dollars to come up short
"...a month – on whether to adopt a prevailing wage scale that includes money for benefits for workers on..."
April 15, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Austin Desperately Needs Lifeguards but Has Resisted Calls for a Wage Increase
Lifeguards in limbo
"...summer, a group of lifeguards is organizing for the wages and benefits it believes will alleviate the shortage. Citing..."
June 3, 2022 News Feature by Abe Asher
The Hightower Report: The Living Wage Preemption Act
"...and other activist groups began winning city campaigns for minimum wage hikes, ALEC responded by holding a corporate forum..."
Aug. 4, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower
Eastside Developer Promises $15/Hour Wage Floor, and More
Developer joins with Workers Defense to offer labor guarantees, but the neighborhood still has qualms about a new hotel
"...wide range of worker benefits – including a $15-per-hour wage floor – to help mitigate the effects of neighborhood..."
June 5, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú
American Job
"...English. Everyone knows this is nowhere, this world of minimum-wage jobs, stultifying labor, and dead ends. Another day, another..."
March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Hightower Report
Mitch's minimum-wage glitch
"...darn proposals." Like what, you ask? "Like raising the minimum wage," explained the senator from Kentucky, a state with..."
Sept. 12, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Hightower Report
Pulling the curtain on an anti-minimum wage front group
"...are hyperbolic screeds against economists who favor raising the minimum wage, denouncing them as "radical researchers."..."
April 18, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower
Wildlife
Gyllenhaal and Mulligan burn in this period marriage drama
"...then runs off to work fighting the fires for minimum wage, leaving his wife Jeanette (Mulligan) and 14-year-old son..."
Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White
Compliance
When authority is ceded to a disembodied voice on the other end of a phone line, all bounds of human propriety are lost in this story's fast-food joint.
"...That's essentially what happens to Dreama Walker's Becky, a minimum-wage slave whose day spirals from bad to terrifically creepy..."
Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
3rd Court Halts Paid Sick Leave
City ordinance put on pause by soon-to-be-ex-judges
"...days a year, is a violation of the Texas Minimum Wage Act, ruled the Austin-based appeals court...."
Nov. 16, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma
Fight for $15 Gains Momentum in Austin
Fast food employees frustrated by low wages
"...Fight for $15-organized strike, demanding a $15 per hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without..."
Nov. 18, 2015 News Post by Amy Kamp
Out of Reach
Living Wage Eludes the Average Austinite
"...which, according to the conventional economic wisdom, means higher wages. But that particular bit of good news, apparently, has..."
