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...writer was a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement as an undergraduate...
...later write that living wages are flawed because they calculate “the money necessary to support a decent lifestyle independent of the nature of the actual work being done, and independent of the compensation that the labor market demands.” Yes, that is the very point of a living wage. People without marketable skills deserve to have decent lifestyles, even if the free market would compensate them at a wage rate that could not support them. Either you believe that the free market always leads to fair wages, or you believe that free-market wages...
...that I’m a Crimson editor writing an article about a student campaign for a living wage. “Oh,” I think to myself, “I’ll just check the Facebook group section to see if the Student Labor Action Movement has a group, and then I’ll include its group membership in my article...
...constantly being worked out between workers and employers. If workers feel powerless to force their bosses to obey the law, living wage laws frequently aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. That’s why ACORN continues to work with Florida labor unions to ensure that workers receive the living wage to which they are entitled. ACORN has successfully defeated attempts by the state legislature to overrule the people’s will by undermining the immensely popular minimum wage law. And ACORN will still be on the ground mobilizing workers when...
...Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff will testify in front of a Senate committee Tuesday on immigration reform. The issue has divided Republicans, with Bush, John McCain and many business groups pushing for a program that puts immigrants into a guest worker program that would allow them to stay in the country, while many conservatives feel any provision on immigration must first focus on keeping out illegal immigrants...