● New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined cable workers in their ongoing contract fight with Spectrum.
● La Colombe coffee founder Todd Carmichael:
I am living, breathing, profitable proof that raising the minimum wage is good for business and workers.
Our workforce, profitable companies, and consumers as a whole need a minimum-wage raise. If even profitable, growing concerns like a coffee-roasting company can do it, so can others. I’ll go even further and say that unless you pay your employees a nonpredatory living wage that keeps people and their families above the poverty line, you don’t deserve to be in business. And you certainly don’t deserve a tax break for creating predatory-pay “jobs.”
● More than 300,000 signatures in Missouri for a ballot measure to repeal an anti-union law—and that blocks implementation of the law until the vote.
● American corporate leaders: Truly the saviors of the Asian working classes.
● Workers Independent News: