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Episode 22: Crypto Wages, Coachella Farm Workers, South Teacher Raises, Starbucks Unionization, Remote Pay Cuts

Purdue to invest $50 million in pay increases, raise minimums on grad stipends and staff wages

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2022/Q2/purdue-to-invest-50-million-in-pay-increases,-raise-minimums-on-grad-stipends-and-staff-wages.html

Starbucks Prepares to Expand Worker Benefits That Might Exclude Unionized Staff

https://www.wsj.com/articles/starbucks-prepares-to-expand-benefits-to-workers-but-could-exclude-unionized-ones-11649869570

Starbucks Sued by U.S. Labor Board Over Retaliation Claims

https://time.com/6170100/starbucks-sued-labor-baord/

Work remote, get paid less? The battle dividing offices will define the future of work

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/apr/12/remote-work-return-to-office-what-is-the-future-of-work

Working for $2.50 per hour: US Department of Labor’s crackdown on grossly exploitive, abusive pay practices in San Diego continues 

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20220408

Report: Detroit residents want cash compensation for over-assessed properties 

https://www.michiganradio.org/news/2022-04-14/report-detroit-residents-want-cash-compensation-for-over-assessed-properties

Zuckerberg gets $26m in 'other' Meta compensation

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/12/mark_zuckerberg_gets_a_26m/

Cryptocurrency As Compensation: Beware Of The Risks

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/cryptocurrency-compensation-beware-risks

In Several States, Teachers Get Their Biggest Raise in Decades

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/us/teacher-salary-pay-raise.html

Interns Are Making Over $16,000 a Month as Wall Street Talent Wars Heat Up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/how-much-are-wall-street-interns-paid-some-make-over-16-000-a-month

Mississippi Pay Equity Bill Crosses Finish Line

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/mississippi-pay-equity-bill-crosses-finish-line

Employers can’t afford to raise wages as cost of living soars—here’s what they’re doing to retain talent instead

https://fortune.com/2022/04/13/employers-afford-raise-wages-cost-of-living-soars-what-theyre-doing-retain-talent-instead/

Coachella's big acts make it easy to ignore Coachella's poverty

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/coachella-s-big-acts-make-it-easy-ignore-coachella-s-n1294707

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 Episode 21: $3.50/hr Disability Pay in Texas, Kansas Corrections Shortage, Colorado Minimum Wage Policies, Local Government Strikes.

How Colorado's minimum wage policies compare with other states

https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2022/04/04/colorado-minimum-wage-policies-compare

48 Percent of Americans with Annual Incomes over $100,000 Live Paycheck to Paycheck, 9 percentage points higher than first reported in June 2021 

https://ir.lendingclub.com/news/news-details/2022/48-Percent-of-Americans-with-Annual-Incomes-over-100000-Live-Paycheck-to-Paycheck-9-percentage-points-higher-than-first-reported-in-June-2021/default.aspx

100 millionaires and billionaires signed a letter to pay more taxes—and fear violence if they don’t

https://fortune.com/2022/01/19/100-millionaires-billionaires-sign-letter-more-taxes/

Minneapolis teachers strike after failing to reach contract on wages, class sizes

https://kcby.com/news/nation-world/minneapolis-teachers-go-on-strike-after-failing-to-reach-contract-on-wages-class-sizes

Shawnee County plans $5 million-plus in pay increases to try to keep up with competition for workers

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/2022/01/21/shawnee-county-kansas-plans-5-million-plus-wage-hikes-keep-up-competition/6577408001/

Exhausted and overworked Kansas corrections employees make case for pay increase

https://kansasreflector.com/2022/01/20/exhausted-and-overworked-kansas-corrections-employees-make-case-for-pay-increase/

The Kronos ransomware attack could leave employers without payroll service for weeks. Here's what employees should know.

https://www.businessinsider.com/employees-affected-by-the-kronos-ransomeware-attack-payroll-services-2021-12

Apple shareholders approve CEO Cook's annual compensation, civil rights proposal

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-shareholders-vote-favor-ceo-cooks-annual-compensation-2022-03-04/

Judge orders Walmart to rehire worker with Down syndrome, provide more than $50,000 in back pay 

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/judge-orders-walmart-to-reinstate-worker-with-down-syndrome.html

Adults with disabilities can be paid $3.30 an hour or less. Why pressure is building to end the practice. 

https://sanantonioreport.org/subminimum-wages-disabled-workers/

L.A. County workers rally for higher wages and less outsourcing, with contract expiring at midnight 

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-31/l-a-county-workers-rally-for-higher-wages-and-less-outsourcing-with-contract-expiring-at-midnight

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Episode 20: Henry Darby, Velocity of Money, Increase Tipped Wage, Staffing Firms and Job Scams.

Episode 20 (02/07/2021) References:

Henry Darby goes above and beyond to help his students. And that should make you angry

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article249015290.html#storylink=mainstage_cardO

Let’s talk about the ‘velocity of money’

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/02/09/lets-talk-about-the-velocity-of-money-column/

Ending the Subminimum Tipped Wage Is a Step Towards Building Black Worker Power

https://inequality.org/great-divide/ending-tipped-wage-black-worker-power/

CBO report finds $15 minimum wage would cost jobs but lower poverty levels

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/08/minimum-wage-hike-15-an-hour-by-2025-would-result-14-million-unemployed-nonpartisan-congressional-budget-office-says/

Staffing firm's per diem payments were compensation, not reimbursements: 9th Circuit

https://www.reuters.com/article/employment-flsa/staffing-firms-per-diem-payments-were-compensation-not-reimbursements-9th-circuit-idUSL1N2KF04Y

Great job opportunity or a big scam?

https://www.abc15.com/news/let-joe-know/great-job-opportunity-or-a-big-scam

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Episode 19: GameStop $11 Hour Wage, Federal Comp Reform, Mental Health Work Comp, Target Bonuses, WA Agriculture Overtime Pay

Episode 19 (01/31/2021) References:

GameStop Staff Making $11 an Hour Miss Out on Rally’s Spoils

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/gamestop-staff-making-11-an-hour-find-reddit-traders-tone-deaf

Osten Spearheads Push for Workers’ Compensation to Include Mental Health

https://ctexaminer.com/2021/01/30/osten-spearheads-push-for-workers-compensation-to-include-mental-health/

Fixing Federal Compensation Should Be Civil Service Reform Priority No. 1 

https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2021/01/fixing-federal-compensation-should-be-civil-service-reform-priority-no-1/171695/

Raising the Minimum Wage Would Boost an Economic Recovery—and Reduce Taxpayer Subsidization of Low-Wage 

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2021/01/27/495163/raising-minimum-wage-boost-economic-recovery-reduce-taxpayer-subsidization-low-wage-work/

Love's to pay employees a $75 bonus for virus vaccinations

https://tulsaworld.com/business/loves-to-pay-employees-a-75-bonus-for-virus-vaccinations/article_0409c86a-627a-11eb-80e3-9b9f22c75ed4.html

McDonald’s to pay employees to get vaccinated 

https://www.pantagraph.com/business/mcdonald-s-to-pay-employees-to-get-vaccinated/article_67e53380-681c-5f7a-b0ad-e7dc4564768b.html

Target to pay out $200 million in employee bonuses

https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/target-pay-out-200-million-employee-bonuses

Washington farmers: Overtime pay lawsuits could sink us 

https://www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/dairy/washington-farmers-overtime-pay-lawsuits-could-sink-us/article_042e8a14-619a-11eb-8ade-4b87302a8567.html

Focus on Families, Not on Wages

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/minimum-wage-hike-give-the-money-to-families-instead

San Jose, Oakland may require grocers to give ‘hazard pay’ to front line workers 

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/31/san-jose-oakland-may-require-grocers-to-give-hazard-pay-to-front-line-workers/

Ohio Auto Parts Workers Are on Strike to Unionize

https://labornotes.org/2021/01/ohio-auto-parts-workers-are-strike-unionize

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Episode 18: Hunts Point Strike, Unemployment, Work Struggles for Wages Across the World, Wall Street Firms Frugality with Workers.

Episode 18 (01/24/2021) References:

Court denies Post Foods’ motion to dismiss compensation lawsuit

https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/17757-court-denies-post-foods-motion-to-dismiss-compensation-lawsuit

Forget Biden’s Bust of Cesar Chavez: Hunts Point Strike Is the Bold Labor Action the Country Needs

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/23/covid-nyc-hunts-point-strike/

Another 900,000 file for unemployment, record jobless claims continue amid mass death from pandemic

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/22/unem-j22.html

Richard Wolff on Jacobin talking about jobs program from the FDR administration.

https://youtu.be/BNYzMm6_c-Q?t=4511

CPS calls CTU’s proposed rejection of in-person school an ‘illegal strike’

https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2021/1/21/22242706/ctu-cps-strike-walkout-remote-learning-public-schools-teachers-union

Trader Joe's, Dollar General And Others Are Paying Workers To Get Vaccines

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/958849642/grocers-have-a-strategy-to-get-their-workers-vaccinated-against-covid-19-pay-the

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/22/wkrs-j22.html

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/23/labo-j23.html

Wall Street Gets Frugal With Employees After Pandemic Windfall

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-21/wall-street-gets-frugal-with-employees-after-pandemic-windfall

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Episode 17: Minimum Wage Raises, Chinese, Indian, and Peruvian Wage Protests and Teachers Paid Not to Teach.

Episode 17 (01/17/2021) References:

Raises From Coast to Coast in 2021

https://www.nelp.org/publication/raises-from-coast-to-coast-in-2021/

Peru president vows action after deaths at farm workers protest

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/31/peru-president-vows-action-after-deaths-at-farm-workers-protest

Apple supply chain workers in Asia protest over unpaid wages 

 https://www.ft.com/content/4dd7ffed-1814-4bb3-a97e-2b82054e7c77

The N.J. Teachers Who Get Paid Not to Teach 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-n-j-teachers-who-get-paid-not-to-teach-11609710168?mod=searchresults_pos16&page=1

Money for Nothing

https://goldwaterinstitute.org/money-for-nothing/

Wages for the top 1% skyrocketed 160% since 1979 while the share of wages for the bottom 90% shrunk

https://www.epi.org/blog/wages-for-the-top-1-skyrocketed-160-since-1979-while-the-share-of-wages-for-the-bottom-90-shrunk-time-to-remake-wage-pattern-with-economic-policies-that-generate-robust-wage-growth-for-vast-majority/

The heath care workforce needs higher wages and better opportunities

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/12/02/the-heath-care-workforce-needs-higher-wages-and-better-opportunities/amp/

Unequal Power

https://www.epi.org/unequalpower/

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Episode 16: Microsoft Hiring Bias, Raise the Wage Act, 35k Airline Job Cuts, Portguese Workers Wage Protest, Luxury Building Workers Strike.

Episode 16 (09/27/2020) References:

Already facing its worst crisis since 9/11, airline industry set to cut more than 35,000 jobs this week

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/airline-industry-job-cuts/2020/09/26/824b1380-fdaf-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html

Angry but determined: Portuguese workers protest for better wages amid pandemic

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL8N2GN0BF

Essential workers deserve essential wages

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/517684-essential-workers-deserve-essential-wages

Marriage linked to higher wages for some workers

https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/marriage-linked-higher-wages-some-workers

https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2020/4/marriage-rate-blog-test

High Rise Luxury Building Workers Walk Off Job in Bid for Fair Wages, Healthcare

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/jersey-city/sections/economic-development/articles/high-rise-luxury-building-workers-walk-off-job-in-bid-for-fair-wages-healthcare

A Right-Leaning Court Will Tackle Some Big Business Cases. The Outcomes Aren’t Obvious. 

https://www.barrons.com/articles/how-a-more-conservative-supreme-court-could-redefine-free-enterprise-51601070282?mod=hp_LEAD_1

Perspective | Elevating the ‘teacher pay penalty’ on the state and national agenda

https://www.ednc.org/perspective-elevating-the-teacher-pay-penalty-on-the-state-and-national-agenda/

Microsoft to pay $3M to job applicants to resolve hiring bias claims 

https://www.hrdive.com/news/microsoft-to-pay-3m-to-job-applicants-to-resolve-hiring-bias-claims/585681/

Uber, Lyft Give California GOP Millions While Fighting Driver Reclassification

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4q7p/uber-lyft-give-california-gop-millions-while-fighting-driver-reclassification

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Episode 15: Intentional Wage Suppression, Million Dollar Coach Salaries, Largest Healthcare Worker Strike, End Below-Minimum Wage for Workers with Disabilities.

Episode 15 (09/20/2020) References:

Some Texas teachers are getting the biggest pay hikes of their careers. Here’s how.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/education/article/Some-Texas-teachers-are-getting-the-biggest-pay-15541479.php

U.S. Agency Urges End To Below-Minimum Wage For Workers With Disabilities

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/912840482/u-s-agency-urges-end-to-below-minimum-wage-for-workers-with-disabilities

Connecticut hourly minimum wage increases from $11 to $12

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/09/17/connecticut-hourly-minimum-wage-increases-from-11-to-12/

Immigrants Win Back Stolen Wages, But Few May Report Violations During Pandemic

https://www.kqed.org/news/11838137/immigrants-win-back-stolen-wages-but-few-may-report-violations-during-pandemic

Square to offer early access to earned wages for employees of its merchants 

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/square-to-offer-early-access-to-earned-wages-for-employees-of-its-merchants-11600184721

Suppression of wages in US at centre of widening social inequality

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/16/wage-s16.html

Hobby Lobby to raise minimum wage to $17 an hour for full-time workers starting Oct. 1

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/09/14/hobby-lobby-minimum-hourly-wage-increasing-october/5798782002/

Federal suit says employees at Old Town restaurant weren’t paid minimum wage, overtime 

https://www.kansas.com/news/business/article245751725.html

Capping college coaches' salaries discussed at congressional hearing

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29892716/capping-college-coaches-salaries-discussed-congressional-hearing

Healthcare Workers Are Leading the Largest Strike Ever at the University of Illinois-Chicago

https://inthesetimes.com/article/healthcare-workers-strike-university-illinois-chicago

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Episode 14: Shorter Work Day Same Pay, Amazon Hiring Spree, Hints Based On JDs, Bad Teaching, Bidens Call To End Tip Min Wage, Wage Theft Rise.

Episode 14 (09/16/2020) References:

Is it time to cut back our working hours? .

https://www.ft.com/content/2973bdb4-aef7-4766-b4a5-3f83dd0d667f

https://www.ft.com/content/927794b2-6b70-11ea-89df-41bea055720b

SeaWorld, Hard Rock plan layoffs at Florida properties

https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/2020/09/08/seaworld-hard-rock-plan-layoffs-at-florida-properties/

Amazon is on a hiring spree amid widespread coronavirus layoffs and record unemployment

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/09/amazon-is-on-a-hiring-spree-amid-widespread-coronavirus-layoffs-and-record-unemployment.html

https://layoffs.fyi/tracker/

Aspen Skiing Co. confirms layoffs, up to 50 job eliminations 

https://www.aspendailynews.com/news/aspen-skiing-co-confirms-layoffs-up-to-50-job-eliminations/article_53303f82-f556-11ea-a086-2732da2120ae.html

Avoid These 9 Mistakes When Drafting a Job Description for Your Business 

https://techspective.net/2020/09/12/avoid-these-9-mistakes-when-drafting-a-job-description-for-your-business/

Adjunct professors upset with compensation at Johnson County Community College 

https://themercury.com/ap/adjunct-professors-upset-with-compensation-at-johnson-county-community-college/article_4c468aee-de6b-5b5e-8c47-40de48fe0f75.html

Bad Teaching Is Tearing America Apart 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bad-teaching-is-tearing-america-apart-11599857351#refreshed?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

Sanders pushes Biden to focus more on wages, health care

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/516142-sanders-aide-says-senator-pushing-biden-to-focus-more-on-wages-health-care

Why Joe Biden’s Pledge to End the Tipped Minimum Wage Is a Big Deal

https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/09/joe-biden-reiterates-pledge-to-end-the-tipped-minimum-wage.html

Michigan Healthcare System to Pay $104.7K to Settle Wage Discrimination Lawsuit

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2020/09/09/581923.htm

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office detected nearly 13,000 wage theft victims in fiscal 2020, surpassing previous year

https://www.masslive.com/business/2020/09/massachusetts-attorney-general-maura-healeys-office-detected-nearly-13000-wage-theft-victims-in-fiscal-2020-surpassing-previous-year.html?outputType=amp