How West Virginia activists organized a solidarity fund for the uprising:
“These folks were on the picket line and supporting the strike, but stood to not be able to pay their rent or heating bill,” said Stephen Smith of the West Virginia Working Families Party.
So he and a few other local activists set up an online appeal to help cover lost wages. Seven thousand people from all over the country gave an average of $48 apiece, totaling $332,945.
Workplace deaths are rising. Trump-era budget cuts could make it worse.
Yay! D.C. voters approve initiative raising minimum wage for tipped workers to $15.
Lots going on in Massachusetts. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court killed a ballot question raising taxes on the highest earners, following which the state legislature has worked out a tentative bargain on a $15 minimum wage, paid family leave, and a sales tax holiday.